[hider=Raeretha][center][img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/250616/6c550814b23a82499075c378347e4fb9.png[/img] [img] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1383579445746733247/1384008747298455604/IMG_8308.jpg?ex=685429d6&is=6852d856&hm=be7f9146089260dbc70ca1811833bcd0fe2569aff131b55549c12d9752444e63&[/img] [indent][sub][color=plum]29[/color] - [color=plum]Female[/color] - [color=plum]Elven (Falon’Din’sil Clan)[/color][/sub][/indent] [/center] [table=bordered][row][/row][row][cell=active][indent][sub] [b][color=plum]Class + Specialization:[/color][/b] Rogue ~ Assassin [b][color=plum]Custom Traits:[/color][/b] (Your custom traits, in which you create these! These can range from spells, to physical skills, racial traits, or unique magical heirlooms. This is where I encourage creativity to set yourself apart from the rest of the cast and class features) (No need to follow the order below, do as you see fit, as they are only examples) [b][color=plum]1. Daggers of Falon'Din [/color][/b] Obtained on an excursion within the ancient temple deep within the Lava Ruins, Rae seemed to bond with daggers. When she returned home, she applied her trademark red floral etchings on the blades and handles. These daggers siphon energy from her opponents once nicked. When fully charged, the red inscriptions begin to glow and then she can throw them to explode within her targets. [hider=Daggers][img] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1384563334434783444/1384913860510875798/IMG_8310.jpg?ex=6854290a&is=6852d78a&hm=13d3406f3678d823b55bfb675455b9fb49315c618e373f8da00df697f3b0cd10&[/img][/hider] [b][color=plum]2. Falon'Din's Fury[/color][/b] Rae's Valislin begins to glow as she embraces her calm fury, using whichever weapon is most expendable at the moment, either daggers (normal daggers, not her special ones) or arrows, she unleashes rapid-fire projectiles treating her targets like pin cushions until she deals a deadly blow. [b][color=plum]3. Murder of Roses (similar to Murder of Crow)[/color][/b] Using her advanced agility and her poison concoction of Cave Adder venom, Deepstalker Claws, and Blood Lotus, Rae's enemies believe she vanishes in a rain of dark red rose petals, she leaps rapidly between nearby targets, dealing damage with each strike. The final leap deals significant damage to any enemies near the strike zone. [b][color=plum]4. Poison Blades[/color][/b] Rae has a keen fascination with plants for both healing and poisoning purposes, she uses her poisons to create Poisoned Blades with her daggers and the tips of her arrows. [b][color=plum]5. Passion of Mythal[/color][/b] Rae is extremely talented with a bow- similar to her daggers. Her bow, etched with red foral markings, aptly named Passion of Mythal, as Mythal was the mother of all things. The bow is made of what appears to be a mix of charcoaled wood with an obsidian inlay. The bow and her Valsilin connect in combat to allow her to tap into the Elven connection of nature. This allows her to use some elemental effects such as Rain of Decay, Reeling Bolt, and Exploding Arrow, applying one effect to a single arrow when her bow is charged. [hider=Bow][img] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1384563334434783444/1384913860850356224/IMG_8311.jpg?ex=6854290a&is=6852d78a&hm=382e3f1e00eea8f13be854d20ece7217f5d4e9ccf897f9f2219a65d8b30ac3ec&[/img][/hider] [b][color=plum]Story traits:[/color][/b] (Leave this empty for now. These are rewards granted via story progression) [b][color=plum]Stats:[/color][/b] Heavy: +6 Defender: [0/20] 5 Perseverance: [0/20] 10 Hard Hitter: [0/20] 5 Combat Sense: [0/20] 10 Physical: +13 Reflexes: [0/20] 15 Stealth: [0/20] 20 Rapid Blows: [0/20] 15 Perception: [0/20] 15 Magic: +1 Power: [0/20] 0 Pattern Weaving: [0/20] 5 Mana Pool: [0/20] 0 Fortitude: [0/20] 0 [/sub][/indent][/cell][/row] [/table] [hr] [table=bordered][row][/row][row][/row][row][cell=active][indent][sub][b][color=plum]Biography:[/color][/b] [b][i]Some where in an eclectic scholar’s library, shoved way in the back behind other books lies the vague history of the Falon’Din’sil[/i][/b] [i]“Falon’Din’sil” – “Ghosts of the Forgotten” (Falon’Din = the elven god of death and the beyond - Sil = ghosts/shades/echoes) Dalish Folklore Terms: “The Hollow Kin” - A humanized term Dalish use among themselves, implying elves in form, but spiritually empty. “Blood-Sung” - Those “sung” or shaped by blood magic. “The Sunless” - A reference to their subterranean life. (A cautionary tale—what becomes of elves who delve too far into the old magics) “We do not speak of the Falon’Din’sil. They walked too deep and listened too long. Now they are only echoes beneath the earth.” Before the fall of Arlathan, the elven empire was vast and fractured into many castes and sects. One such sect, known as the Falon’Din’sil, followed an esoteric and extreme interpretation of Falon'Din’s teachings. They practiced early, now-forbidden blood magic rituals, claiming they were divine in origin and allowed direct communion with the gods. When Arlathan fell and the Dalish scattered, this dark sect retreated northward, crossing the sea to the lands that would eventually become Par Vollen. There, they established hidden enclaves within the volcanic caves and jungle-covered ruins. They avoided contact with humans, and later, with the Qunari, blending into myth and fearsome rumor. Their society is matriarchal, with power held by seer-queens known as Night-Mothers (Vir Daelen). These women are feared and revered as both blood mages and visionaries who can "see" through the Fade. They do not follow the Qun and live as an isolated, spiritualist culture with strict taboos around outsiders. Official Qunari history describes them as extinct, wiped out during the conquest.[/i] [hr] Born to an alchemist father and a mother who owned a tailor shop, Rae lived in the Fani’Orair’Inon District, to humans this would be similar to a Merchants’ market. While it was nothing like the Fani’Ortaor Barastena'las, the Noble District, it was more comfortable than the Slums. Her family still struggled to make ends meet as supplies were always in short supply living underground. Only those who lived in the Noble District could afford to have consistent food to keep their bellies full. Rae learned her mother’s techniques of appliqué and other methods of embroidery to help further the business while her father worked for the Temple of Falon’Din’sil as a senior healer and chemist, teaching her the importance of give and take with ingredients. Being kind people, there were many times that Rae helped her parents make healing packages for those in the Slums. At the age of twelve, young Elven attend the Academy at the Temple, taught by the priests and priestesses. If they show promise in furthering the Clan’s mission, the young ones are removed from their families and placed in the dormitories to be instructed day and night. It was during her first confession with High Priestess Asalandiva, when the priestess had a vision of Rae walking on the Surface. Keeping this knowledge to herself, Asalandiva had Rae taken from her home and kept in the Temple to try and change the vision she saw. Raeretha was assigned to the Espionage Command taught in the many ways of hand to hand combat and spying. After one graduates the Academy, they are sent into the Deep Roads to journey to the Lava Ruins (an ancient Elvhen temple said to have collapse within the sky during the Fall of Elvhenan) for their Vallaslin. In the Chamber of Visions, one must offer a drop of life (blood) into the Pool of Gold, then they will receive their markings by the priests and priestesses. Common elves who aren’t taken from their families receive the traditional Vallaslin with either charcoal or volcanic ash. Those like Rae, who show promise, obtain theirs with a powdered form of red lyrium, carefully crafted by the High Priest and Priestess who know how to properly stabilize it. When she returned home with the red inking her skin, she was assigned to the intelligence and espionage unit for the clan. Rae’s parents were also allowed to join the Noble District now that they had a daughter with a higher position in the clan. Rae still wasn’t allowed to rejoin her parents as she now belonged to the Temple. Raeretha, being a constantly curious person, has an affinity for flora and fauna. This trait didn’t make her very many friends in the Academy. In fact, she was constantly harassed for being too entranced with her experiments. Being underground wasn’t ideal for ingredients to grow and thrive. So, Rae paid top dollar for any interesting specimens she found on the trade market. Although, by the time the Dwarves got to Falon’Din’sil, many ingredients had perished or were sold to other Dwarves. Making friends with the Dwarves that traded with them, Raeretha learned of the Surface and all the kinds of ingredients they had available to them. Since Rae’s clan refused to contact the Surface, she settled for purchasing books from the Dwarves, dreaming of what the surface may look like. It was during this time that Rae figured out how to apply the stabilized red lyrium to thread, allowing her to embed her clothing with enhanced properties. She also enjoys music and singing, and while she was tasked to learn how to play the lyre as a part of her upbringing, she keeps such enjoyment to herself since she took up the mantle of assassin and spy, not of the bard. During her last travels within the Deep Roads for the Clan, Raeretha and her troop began to notice signs that the Blight was different than normal. Rae told the Night Mother, the leader of the Clan, of her troop’s findings of the mutating Blight. Instead of being taken seriously, she was told to take a brief leave as the Night Mother and the Head Priest and Priestess knew of how stubborn Rae could be. Soon, one of her troop members and fellow Academy graduate, Anise, who was nicked by a darkspawn in a skirmish became sick with the mutated blight and was sent into Forced Isolation in the Lava Ruins. Anise was a Elvhen from the Slums. He was proud to have been chosen and further his family out of the desperate streets of the Slums. Proudly boasting that he would bring honor to the Clan by finding lost artifacts from Elvhenan. He was always recanting the tales of the Grey Wardens of old, how he modeled himself after them even though they hadn’t had contact since the First Blight. Anise’s former enthusiasm and belief in the tales of old encouraged Rae to implore the Night Mother to allow her to go find aid, whether it was from the Dwarves or the Grey Wardens. The situation was clear that Falon’Din’sil needed help. The Night Mother and other elders denied Raeretha such a request, forbidding her to even leave her home until her leave of absence was over. Rae followed orders for a while until she caught word of the new blight spreading in the Slums. The Night Mother ordered the Slums to be blocked off, having food and water delivered over the wall that was built. That was the tipping point for Raeretha to pursue help from the Surface on her own, even if it meant exile afterwards. After all, once one ‘abandons’ the Clan, they are considered a traitor to Falon’Din. Rae gathered what she could, grabbed her weapons, and headed to Kal-Sharok to get herself to the surface. She managed to get through the Deep Roads barely by covering herself in the guts of a darkspawn she killed, knowing that she wouldn’t be able to fight a large number of them at once without her troop. A Dwarf warrior almost mistook her for a ghoul until she proved that she was healthy and well. After a brief cleansing from the Kal-Sharok Shaperates, who believe that she is a scholar who got separated from her group, they sent her to the surface. [b][color=plum]Homeland:[/color][/b] The volcanic catacombs of Par Vollen, known as [b]Anor’or’iseth i’nisathe[/b], the Land of Heat and Ash. [b][color=plum]Motivation:[/color][/b] She hopes to strengthen relations with the surface similar to the Dwarves. [b][color=plum]Relations:[/color][/b] Raeretha hasn’t yet considered a relationship as her people usually wait until their forties to get married and start a family. But the surface is different than the Below, who knows what could develop? [b][color=plum]Equipment List:[/color][/b] -A set of dark leather-bound journals to record her findings. [hider=Her Journals][img] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1384563334434783444/1384913861173575780/IMG_8314.jpg?ex=6854290a&is=6852d78a&hm=8fbb2cd27130b254607116b0750f19e2ac625083a9e501e6198f3f335ff21d74&[/img][/hider] -A set of charcoal sticks -A traveling alchemist set to create healing elixirs and/or poisons -Her lyre if it strikes her fancy to play -Her mission attire is made of black leather and expertly decorated with red floral embroidery. [hider=Rogue Leathers][img] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1384563334434783444/1384563397458395307/IMG_8321.jpg?ex=68538b65&is=685239e5&hm=773b3a0b151af7dd545932b4dd459544045d8a15c70335c154f4a2d8357b9be1&[/img][/hider] -Her casual clothes are a white embroidered blouse and a black corset and trousers. [hider=Casual Attire][img] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1384563334434783444/1384563397101883585/IMG_8320.jpg?ex=68538b65&is=685239e5&hm=7215f0a5fcace8a6fbcf0605d7006bc12b20cc99964e25ee82d2666659bbe458&[/img] -A small sewing and embroidery kit from her time at the Academy. [/hider] [b][color=plum]Signature:[/color][/b] (Type [b][color=plum]“WhiteAngel25”[/color][/b] to agree to the rules of the RP, including giving me permission kill off your character (within reason) in order to avoid any misconceptions down the line)[/sub][/indent][/cell][/row][/table] [/hider]