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[i]"The justice I serve isn’t accepted by everyone. That’s fine. I’ve never needed their acceptance."[/i]
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[sub][color=B21A4D]Calamity ‘Cali’ Harbinger (Born Ivy Lyrre)[/color]

[color=B21A4D]She/Her  [b]|[/b]   29  [b]|[/b]   Tiefling   [b]|[/b]   Fierna Bloodline  [b]|[/b]   5’3”  [b]|[/b]   125lbs  [b]|[/b][/color]      
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[color=B21A4D]Retribution[/color]
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[color=B21A4D]Skills & Talents[/color][/sub]
[i]"The forest is my true home. It’s a shame I like company too much to escape to it."[/i]
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[sub][color=B21A4D][b]Hunter-Assassin  ⫻[/b][/color] Growing up, Cali learned how to track and hunt animals in the thick forests around her home to help bring back food for her family and to sell. She can track, stalk, and easily kill beasts of a variety of sizes… And after she left her village she learned to use these skills to hunt and kill humans too. She’s an expert tracker, and will trail her ‘prey’ for days on end until she finds the right moment to strike and kill, before slipping back into the shadows.

[color=B21A4D][b]Climber  ⫻[/b][/color] From climbing trees as a child to scaling buildings as an adult, Cali has always had a talent for getting to high places. She knows how to find good hand and footholds, and can scale most walls that it’s possible to without magic. This aids her in her assassinations.

[color=B21A4D][b]Woman of the Woods  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali grew up learning how to live off the forest, something that continued in her ranger training and long periods travelling from city to city. Beyond hunting she can also recognise edible berries, mushrooms and plants, and very simple herbs (though her knowledge here isn’t great). She knows where to find fresh water, how to navigate through thick trees, how to make shelter and how to generally survive out in the great wilderness. Along with this she learned wood carving, and made her own bow as a young adult. 

[color=B21A4D][b]Bloodline of Fierna  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali has an almost unnatural charm to her, granted to her by her devilish bloodline. She’s learned how to manipulate people to get what she wants from them. Often, she turns this charm on her targets- manipulating them so they suffer emotional and personal humiliation before she kills them. 
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[i]"Keep looking at me like that and you’ll lose your eyes."[/i]

[indent]Although she’s a bit shorter than average, Cali isn’t easily overlooked as a tiefling. Her skin is a dark carmine red, with two twisted horns going from a shade darker to near black at the tips. The base of her horns, where they grow from her skin, is always covered by curly bangs that go to her eyebrows. Her hair is white with a lavender sheen in places, falling just past her shoulders in curls. She ties it back in a simple ponytail when she needs it out of the way. Her sclera are almost black, and her pupilless purple eyes only enhance her demonic look. Her pointed ears are slightly droopy, and she has one lobe piercing and two helixes in each. Her long tail has an almost heart shaped point at the end.

Cali is lithe, with lean muscles in her arms and legs. She has nice curves, which she likes to show off when she’s in the mood for it- primarily when flirting with women. She has a variety of scars, primarily on her torso and legs. She has a particularly obvious one down her right side. She’s confident in her body now, but there was a time when her appearance brought her nothing but grief.

Cali’s clothing falls into three categories: her standard affair, stealth outfits, and fancier clothing. For her standard affair, she wears her dark leather armour, with the top laces often left undone, over a tunic of whatever colour she fancies on the day- primarily opting for shades of purple, red and burgundy or simpler light brown or cream. This goes with neutral trousers and lace up boots. For cold weather she has a thick animal hide cloak lined with animal fur she got made from the pelts of creatures she’s hunted. When she wants to hide in the shadows, she ditches her coloured tunic and goes all black, with a darker hooded cloak. Fancier is anything she deems less practical- mainly a few dresses she keeps just in case they’d be useful. Nothing too expensive, as she’ll have to leave anything that doesn’t fit in her travelling pack behind when she next moves.
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[i]"You been to the local tavern? No? Lemme take you there, it’ll be my treat… And don’t worry, nothing’ll happen on my watch."[/i]

[INDENT][color=B21A4D][b]MAIN GOAL  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali’s goal in life is great: for all women to live life without having to fear violence at the hand of men who view themselves as superior, and for all abusive men to be killed. Preferably by her hand. Beyond that, she would love to find someone for herself. Deep down she yearns to put down her protector assassin mantle and leave civilization entirely: but it isn’t something she can allow herself to do yet.

[color=B21A4D][b]PHILOSOPHY  ⫻[/b][/color] There is no repentance in this world. They strong prey on the weak, and they only bow to those that are stronger- but this bowing doesn’t mean they regret their previous crimes. The only repentance is in death.

[color=B21A4D][b]SECRETS  ⫻[/b][/color] Being a vigilante who kills men who deserve it- rapists, predators, abusers and the like- is something she tends to keep secret. Unfortunately, most people view it as murder. She views it as justice. She also doesn’t tend to share the traumas that led her to where she is now.

[color=B21A4D][b]SEXUALITY  ⫻[/b][/color] Lesbian. Cali loves women, and any man that tries to make a move on her will get shot.

[color=B21A4D][b]FEARS  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali fears being powerless again. She fears the sexual violence that was enacted on her in her youth, even though she’s strong enough to kill anyone who tries now. 

[color=B21A4D][b]WHAT BROUGHT THEM TO GREYHARROW  ⫻ [/b][/color]  Cali is on the run with a bounty on her head, technically. She’s hoping to lay low in Greyharrow until they forget who she is. And she may as well clean up this town while she’s at it.

[color=B21A4D][b]WHAT DO OTHERS IN TOWN THINK OF THEM  ⫻ [/b][/color]  There are incredibly mixed opinions of Cali. Some like Cali herself for her honesty, her friendliness and how fun she is to drink with. She’s a good person, and great company (to women). Others find her abrasive and forceful- and most men find her mean spirited. 

As for ‘The Bringer of Calamity’- her murderous callsign that doesn’t hide her identity anymore- she is feared, hated and loved. There are women who she’s saved from abuse or gotten revenge on behalf of who are thankful for her, but there are even more men (especially those with power) who fear and abhor her.

[color=B21A4D][b]EQUIPMENT ⫻[/b][/color] Cali carries a longbow with her, and at least twenty arrows in her quiver with many more wherever she’s staying. She has a shortsword she keeps at her belt, though rarely uses. She wears dark leather armour most of the time. Often she’ll have a dark cloak with her. She doesn’t always have her backpack with her, but when she does it's filled with things to help her get high places: a grappling hook, some pitons, and 50 ft of rope attached to the outside along with the standard rations and waterskin. She also has woodcarver’s tools she sometimes brings with her. She also carries a hunting knife, which is never used in combat, only to skin, gut and prepare any animals she hunts. 

[color=B21A4D][b]FLAWS  ⫻[/b][/color] While Cali can be charming, she can also be quite forceful. She won’t hold back her opinions, and can be very abrasive. Along with this she often clashes with other big personalities, and will snap at people who try to force their opinions on others while doing the same (especially men). She’s driven by vengeance more than anything, making her often unforgiving and harsh. The harsh life she’s experienced has led her to be jaded and untrusting, rarely fully trusting anyone. At the end of the day, she’s also a misandrist. Her view has been proved correct enough times that she confidently paints all men with the same brush: awful unless proven otherwise. This makes her harsh and meanspirited towards them, unless she’s purposefully turning on the charm. Its a sharp contrast to how friendly she is with other women.
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[sub][color=B21A4D][b] Backstory[/b][/color][/sub]
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[i]"The world isn’t kind to people like me. So I learned to be unkind to it too."[/i]

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Ivy Lyrre was the first child of two humans in a small town hidden in the High Forest. What was supposed to be a blessing turned into a curse, the Lyrre couple’s first child born as some form of demonic spawn. One of their ancestors had either laid with or made a deal with a devil, and that resulted in their first child being born a tiefling.

Ivy was ostracised from a young age, in an isolated village which was already suspicious of outsiders beyond their trade connections. This ostracisation only worsened when her brother was born just a year after, a healthy human. Then her sister, also human. They were showered by the love Ivy was never shown by her parents. It was as if she didn’t exist. Multiple times they said they wished she hadn’t been bored. Everyone else in the village shunned the ‘devil child’ too.

But there was one person who didn’t. Harold, one of the best hunters in town and a retired ranger who travelled the continent. He took Ivy under his wing as an apprentice. He brought her into the forest with him, and taught her its ways. First, he taught her how to navigate the forest. How to climb a tree to see where she was, and how to use the stars to tell which direction to go. Scavenging, shelter building, everything she’d need to survive in it. At the same time, he taught her about the ecosystem, and how to track down animals, along with how to skin and prepare them to use every part of them. When she was old enough, he taught her how to use a bow. This fostered a deep connection to nature, and she began to train to be a ranger just like he had been.

Harold gave Ivy the attention and affection she lacked everywhere else in life, without seeming to discriminate against her heritage. She thought it was because he’d travelled beyond the village and seen a variety of people. Harold saw Ivy’s isolation as an opportunity to groom a young girl under the guise of training.

What started as an innocent mentor-mentee relationship, or even a replacement Father for Ivy, changed as she began to grow through puberty. Inappropriate touches that Ivy didn’t understand were wrong, though they made her uncomfortable, and stronger affection that went beyond what she’d seen between her parents and siblings. It culminated in him violating her just after she turned sixteen. 

Feeling horrified and disgusted by herself and him, Ivy. She packed what little she had and left the town that had been a reluctant home. The betrayal ran deep. Even though she didn’t entirely understand how wrong what she experienced was, she knew how awful it made her feel.

On that night, Ivy Lyrre died. She chose her own name, a tradition she ironically learned from Harold. She decided to call herself Calamity Harbinger- because it was what she’d bring to Harold when she was strong enough. Or, more simply, Cali. 

Cali spent days travelling and living in the forest until she reached Yartar. But it turned out that the world wasn’t all that different from her village. Sure, people were more educated, but Tieflings were still viewed with suspicion by the majority. And many [i]men[/i] looked at her with lecherous eyes, some following it with sexual violence towards her. She endured and survived, growing jaded as she realised that someone like Harold wasn’t an exception. She saw the way other women were treated in the poor area of the city, most too weak to fight back. Men were the problem.

She thought about living in isolation in a forest somewhere among nature. But she still yearned for connection with other people that she wouldn’t find in the trees and animals.

When she was eighteen, Cali finally snapped. The man that had forced himself into her bed never woke up, after she shot him through the head. There was no regret or guilt over it. Instead she felt elation. She [i]could[/i] fight back. 

From there, her life shaped up into what it is now. She’d honed her skills enough as a ranger to get hired for jobs, making money by day while being a vigilante assassin by night. She’d spend weeks or months in a city, forging connections with other women while killing men to protect them. Rapists, predators, abusers, any men committing those acts died to her arrows. She would stalk her targets, ruining their lives until she finally assassinated them. And she discovered her own love for women, dating where she could- though they often didn’t last long. Eventually, she’d move to a new city, spending a long period travelling between wild areas and keeping in touch with nature. 

Nobody knew who it was behind the string of murders in each city she went to. She was careful to keep her identity hidden, only killing from the shadows at a distance. Her calling card was ‘the Bringer of Calamity’, but no one knew her full name. 

Until a year ago, when she finally returned to the village that she came from. She wanted Harold to see her face when she killed him and finally got her revenge. But he wasn’t the only one. Others saw her, and recognised her. While nobody could connect her to all of the crimes she’d committed, she was connected to [i]enough[/i] to have a bounty put on her head.

So she fled to Greyharrow. It would only be a temporary stay until the heat died down… But she’d make the most of her time here anyway.
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[sub][color=B21A4D][b]BARDS & RANGERS[/b][/color][/sub]
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[i]"Rangers aren’t just masters of nature."[/i]

[indent][color=B21A4D][b]TYPE  ⫻[/b][/color] Ranger (Gloomstalker)

[color=B21A4D][b]FIGHTING STYLE ⫻[/b][/color] Cali wields a longbow, and is skilled in archery. She excels in sniping from a distance and picking off her foes. If given enough time, she can pinpoint and hit an exact spot with ease- for example, through the eye. Though this kind of precision archery isn’t as viable in a combat situation, it’s her signature for assassinations. 

[color=B21A4D][b]MAGIC  ⫻[/b][/color]
[indent][color=B21A4D][b]Hunter’s Mark ⫻[/b] [/color] Cali magically marks a specific target that they can see, within ninety feet, as their quarry. The target is unaware of this, and the mark is visible to only Cali as a subtle purple glow around them. This allows them to easily pick them out from the crowd, and magically track them. By concentrating, Cali can sense where their target is- with the precision being based on distance. The closer she is to the target, the more precise she can pinpoint them. She can only have one marked target, and has to recast it after a day. [/indent]

[color=B21A4D][b]COMPANION  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali has a fox companion called Dev (short for Devastation). Cali found her as a cub abandoned on the streets, and raised her into adulthood. The two share a close bond, though Dev often wanders the street separately to Cali. Dev doesn’t tend to fight humans with Cali, but when she does she’ll often leap up for the softest bit she can get, or tear at legs to try and pull someone to the ground.

[color=B21A4D][b]CURRENT WEAPONS  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali’s primary weapon is a recurve longbow, which she is proficient with. She always ensures her brow, which she carved and strung herself, is kept in perfect condition. She also carries a shortsword, which she isn’t particularly proficient with. She’s learning, and unlikely to be useful with them in combat.

[color=B21A4D][b]TRAINING  ⫻[/b][/color] Cali was trained from a young age by a retired ranger in her village. She continued this training solo after she left, taking long stints alone in thick forests as she travelled.

[color=B21A4D][b]LIMITS  ⫻[/b][/color] As an archer, Cali is limited by range. Her bow is practically useless at any distance shorter than 30 feet, and is strongest from a range of 100 feet to 150 feet. 

Cali can only cast Hunter’s Mark once a day [i]unless[/i] the current target dies, in which case she can recast it in the same day. She can only have one mark active. At a certain distance (say a target leaves their current city), it’s useless. She has to see the target to mark them.

[color=B21A4D][b]WEAKNESSES  ⫻[/b][/color] The Hunters Mark is a strong ability that will allow Cali to be the feared hunter that they are known to be.  However, if Cali has their concentration broken during the spells active duration they will suffer two consequences.  The first, a sharp headache will slam into their mind as if the connection snapped like a rubber band.  This headache will impact every sense for one minute and put them at a disadvantage in combat, speech, and movement.
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[i]"Revenge never tasted so sweet."[/i]

[indent]Now that she's an adult, Cali is kind of embarrassed by the name she chose for herself. Not enough to change it, though.[/INDENT]
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