[OOC] Plague of the North

[Partisan]

You made me think the IC started. :/

[rivaan]

Yeah it was mean wasn't it :3 That aside mind if I have my character worship a goddess that's not the god of light or from the pantheon?

[Fat Boy Kyle]

Yeah it was mean wasn't it :3 That aside mind if I have my character worship a goddess that's not the god of light or from the pantheon?

@rivaan

Your character can worship a lump of goat cheese if they wish to

[rivaan]

Cheesus! O_O!

[rivaan]

And I await critiques!

Name

– Dreams from afar!
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Karen is a beautiful 1.70m tall woman with olive colored skin, shoulder length straight ebony hair, thin eyebrows and piercing amber eyes. Her muscles are perfectly formed for her profession adding to her beautiful figure which always draws the eyes when she isn’t covering it with the heavy clothing for the harsher weather of the north. But the thing that shows her upbringing the most is the way she walks. Her walk seems so weightless as she moves quickly and with nearly no noise from her steps.


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【Full Name】
Karen ibn Nahal

【Alias】
Shadow hand

【Gender】
Female

【Age】
29

【Sexuality】
Bisexual

【Birth Place】
???

【Nation/Allegiance】
Kingdom of Vasili

【Profession】
Assassin

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【Personality】

Karen was once a brutal and ruthless assassin for her master. She would often be tasked with target assassinations and she would do everything needed to complete her mission. That changed when she lost her master.
Today Karen is calm and laid back person. When she is off duty, she could mostly be seen in the local inns, having fun drinking with other people or just plain searching for a company for the night… of either gender. As such there are many rumors floating about her, but she pays no attention to any of them. For those who know her better, know that beneath the calm and carefree surface she shows, there is a deadly sea of darkness who’s wrath is better to be avoided. For they have seen her cold eyes as she sweeps through enemies on the battlefield.
Another thing about Karen is that she likes children and generally despises anyone who would harm them for personal gain. Part of the reason for that is the fact she spend her childhood trained for merciless assassin and the other is that she herself cannot have children.
On the matter of religion, Karen has a neutral opinion. She believes that all gods exist in one form or another as such the petty fights between people about them are meaningless. That aside she worships a goddess from lands known as Skeitha, the goddess of eternal night and the one who oversees over all sinners in the darkness.

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【History】
Karen birthplace is to the south. In lands far, far away from the Kingdom of Dawn and Vasili. A land mostly covered with seemingly endless deserts and few fertile areas around the few rivers where crops will grow. She was born 3rd daughter in an ancient clan of assassins that served one of the rulers of those lands. As was family tradition everyone past the second child was to become an assassin that serves the ruler. From the age of 4 she was put to endless hardships and nightmarish training, to forge her into a weapon. Many and different were the ways of the assassins that were in front of her, eventually she stopped found one of the skills that were most natural for her, the art of throwing weapons.
Her training continued for 10 long years, till her 14th birthday. At that faithful day she was made a full fledged assassin. Karen was brought to a room with 2 other children in her position and they were all given a single knife at the centre of the room. Only one was to leave that room alive. After a few minutes the door of the room opened and from there stepped Karen, covered in blood and wounds.
After her wounds healed she was appointed to be the personal tool for her lord and for him she did many terrible things. For 5 years she killed, abducted, tortured, everything that was required form her so her master could continue to rule, but despite all of that, eventually her kingdom fell to another, her master killed and she actually captured. Luckily for her, the ruler of the enemy kingdom was a wise man. He knew the terrible practices of her clan and didn’t blame her for it. Especially since they caught her, while she was trying to save a child from a ruined building. Instead, he gave Karen a sentence that would keep her life… for a time at least. She was sold to some slave traders that were heading north by sea.
After weeks of sailing, they were close to lands she never even heard of. Unluckily her ship was caught in a storm near the shores of the Kingdom of Vasili. After a long night of fighting with the raging seas, she was thrown at the shores near the town of Southarbour. She was unconscious and still carried her chains, but was never the less holding for a piece of her ship that saved her life. After she woke up though there was a unexpected situation… she didn’t remember anything about her former life and she seemed to have a hard time speaking. Still she was obviously an exotic, beautiful slave, so an owner for her was quickly found. That didn’t continue for a long, because even with her memory gone, she still was a handful. She would behave wild and often disobey orders. She even almost bit off the neck of her master when he tried to rape her. Originally her master planned to kill her right away, but the wild nature she displayed and her obviously well trained body could have proved useful elsewhere. The original reason why slaves were allowed… Obviously it was a waste to send her to build ships, so he sent her to the pitfights. It was in this arena that her memories slowly started to resurface along with her battle skills. Eventually she caught the attention of the military commander of the town, so she was bought as a slave soldier. That happened when she was 21. As her memories returned more and more, she quickly became a important asset to any military company she was put in. Her skills in sneaking allowed her to scout the enemy before an attack was issued and her incredibly precise knife throwing allowed for quickly and silently disposition of enemies if needed. With time as she gained somewhat of a good reputation among the soldiers, she was officially freed from slavery in the condition she would continue to provide her skills for the kingdom. Now at the age of 29 as the emergence of this plague and the formation of the Consano, her commander urged her to go and see if she could be useful for them. For she may have been a foreigner, but he knew her skills would be useful for anyone facing a grave danger.

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【Skills and Abilities】
As an assassin most of Karen’s skills and abilities are mainly oriented around killing people and stealth. Her ability to hide and blend with the surroundings is exceptional and for common people it could almost be seen as her disappearing. She possesses incredible flexibility that allows her to prefer actions such as entering though a openings most people will find impossible even if they are her size. Her other good skill is climbing, she could climb various of surfaces with little difficulty as long as they aren’t completely flat.
Her main killing method is throwing daggers. She has endured long and painful training to reach her present level of skill. Karen could throw daggers up to 25-30 meters with pinpoint accuracy and still posses enough force to penetrate the skull of the target. Though her assassin training makes her usually target other areas such as the eyes. With that said, it’s obvious she posses the needed physical strength to throw those daggers effectively and the eyesight to allow her to see her targets.
For melee combat, she prefers to use a sword that the smiths of the north never seen before. What she requested from them was a relatively light curved sword she called scimitar. While she lacks the pure physical prowess of most of the soldiers, her makes it up by speed and the accuracy of her strikes.

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【Weapons/Tools and Magic】
Karen’s equipment is considerably light. She wears no metal armor of any kind and instead is wearing clothes made from leather, furs and fabric. As such she is capable of agile movement and is always warm even when the weather isn’t great. With that she has a leather waist bag where she keeps things such as emergency rations, 4 daggers, a little bit of poison and it’s antidote.
As for her main weaponry, she has her scimitar on her waist, and a good number of daggers hidden in many different places around her clothing. By uncomfirmed number she hides around 20 knives for throwing.( such as under the leather bracers, in her boots etc…)


Magical Spells
Karen has no spells that I’m aware of!.

I love your milkshakes!(not really cause I never tried a milkshake >_>)

[Partisan]

Hider

Does this match your idea of what she looks like? Brunette, amber eyes.. I wasn't kidding when I said I had a lot of pictures saved.

[rivaan]

I will be darned lol. That's quite close actually lol.

[Partisan]

If you want it, take it. I'll remove it after so it looks like I was just complimenting you or something. :p that way 'you found it.'

[rivaan]

no need since I didnt find it :3 keep it there ^_^

[Partisan]

Suit yourself :^)

[rivaan]

Will do :3 Picture aside any coments on the char itself or rather herself?

[Partisan]

I don't know really, never really liked assassins for characters.

[rivaan]

Well she is an ex-assassin, now she is mostly a military scout/infiltrator :3

[Partisan]

I think you did well making her bisexual because that's a new one in the RP. I like the touch of not being able to have children, too. Being a slave thing is also cool. She certainly went through a lot in her life, almost seems like a Micheal Bay movie at some point, take that as you will.

I think, atleast in terms of equipment, you would do well to remove terms such as 'a good amount' since this is subjective and to anyone this could mean between 1 and 100. But I am not Fat Boy Kyle and I cannot approve or disprove of your character, this is just opinion since you asked for it.

@Fat Boy Kyle is slavery legal in Vahili? If so I have an idea for a character, if you'd allow me to have 2.

[Fat Boy Kyle]

And I await critiques!

Name

– Dreams from afar!
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Karen is a beautiful 1.70m tall woman with olive colored skin, shoulder length straight ebony hair, thin eyebrows and piercing amber eyes. Her muscles are perfectly formed for her profession adding to her beautiful figure which always draws the eyes when she isn’t covering it with the heavy clothing for the harsher weather of the north. But the thing that shows her upbringing the most is the way she walks. Her walk seems so weightless as she moves quickly and with nearly no noise from her steps.


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【Full Name】
Karen ibn Nahal

【Alias】
Shadow hand

【Gender】
Female

【Age】
29

【Sexuality】
Bisexual

【Birth Place】
???

【Nation/Allegiance】
Kingdom of Vasili

【Profession】
Assassin

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【Personality】

Karen was once a brutal and ruthless assassin for her master. She would often be tasked with target assassinations and she would do everything needed to complete her mission. That changed when she lost her master.
Today Karen is calm and laid back person. When she is off duty, she could mostly be seen in the local inns, having fun drinking with other people or just plain searching for a company for the night… of either gender. As such there are many rumors floating about her, but she pays no attention to any of them. For those who know her better, know that beneath the calm and carefree surface she shows, there is a deadly sea of darkness who’s wrath is better to be avoided. For they have seen her cold eyes as she sweeps through enemies on the battlefield.
Another thing about Karen is that she likes children and generally despises anyone who would harm them for personal gain. Part of the reason for that is the fact she spend her childhood trained for merciless assassin and the other is that she herself cannot have children.
On the matter of religion, Karen has a neutral opinion. She believes that all gods exist in one form or another as such the petty fights between people about them are meaningless. That aside she worships a goddess from lands known as Skeitha, the goddess of eternal night and the one who oversees over all sinners in the darkness.

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【History】
Karen birthplace is to the south. In lands far, far away from the Kingdom of Dawn and Vasili. A land mostly covered with seemingly endless deserts and few fertile areas around the few rivers where crops will grow. She was born 3rd daughter in an ancient clan of assassins that served one of the rulers of those lands. As was family tradition everyone past the second child was to become an assassin that serves the ruler. From the age of 4 she was put to endless hardships and nightmarish training, to forge her into a weapon. Many and different were the ways of the assassins that were in front of her, eventually she stopped found one of the skills that were most natural for her, the art of throwing weapons.
Her training continued for 10 long years, till her 14th birthday. At that faithful day she was made a full fledged assassin. Karen was brought to a room with 2 other children in her position and they were all given a single knife at the centre of the room. Only one was to leave that room alive. After a few minutes the door of the room opened and from there stepped Karen, covered in blood and wounds.
After her wounds healed she was appointed to be the personal tool for her lord and for him she did many terrible things. For 5 years she killed, abducted, tortured, everything that was required form her so her master could continue to rule, but despite all of that, eventually her kingdom fell to another, her master killed and she actually captured. Luckily for her, the ruler of the enemy kingdom was a wise man. He knew the terrible practices of her clan and didn’t blame her for it. Especially since they caught her, while she was trying to save a child from a ruined building. Instead, he gave Karen a sentence that would keep her life… for a time at least. She was sold to some slave traders that were heading north by sea.
After weeks of sailing, they were close to lands she never even heard of. Unluckily her ship was caught in a storm near the shores of the Kingdom of Vasili. After a long night of fighting with the raging seas, she was thrown at the shores near the town of Southarbour. She was unconscious and still carried her chains, but was never the less holding for a piece of her ship that saved her life. After she woke up though there was a unexpected situation… she didn’t remember anything about her former life and she seemed to have a hard time speaking. Still she was obviously an exotic, beautiful slave, so an owner for her was quickly found. That didn’t continue for a long, because even with her memory gone, she still was a handful. She would behave wild and often disobey orders. She even almost bit off the neck of her master when he tried to rape her. Originally her master planned to kill her right away, but the wild nature she displayed and her obviously well trained body could have proved useful elsewhere. The original reason why slaves were allowed… Obviously it was a waste to send her to build ships, so he sent her to the pitfights. It was in this arena that her memories slowly started to resurface along with her battle skills. Eventually she caught the attention of the military commander of the town, so she was bought as a slave soldier. That happened when she was 21. As her memories returned more and more, she quickly became a important asset to any military company she was put in. Her skills in sneaking allowed her to scout the enemy before an attack was issued and her incredibly precise knife throwing allowed for quickly and silently disposition of enemies if needed. With time as she gained somewhat of a good reputation among the soldiers, she was officially freed from slavery in the condition she would continue to provide her skills for the kingdom. Now at the age of 29 as the emergence of this plague and the formation of the Consano, her commander urged her to go and see if she could be useful for them. For she may have been a foreigner, but he knew her skills would be useful for anyone facing a grave danger.

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【Skills and Abilities】
As an assassin most of Karen’s skills and abilities are mainly oriented around killing people and stealth. Her ability to hide and blend with the surroundings is exceptional and for common people it could almost be seen as her disappearing. She possesses incredible flexibility that allows her to prefer actions such as entering though a openings most people will find impossible even if they are her size. Her other good skill is climbing, she could climb various of surfaces with little difficulty as long as they aren’t completely flat.
Her main killing method is throwing daggers. She has endured long and painful training to reach her present level of skill. Karen could throw daggers up to 40 meters with pinpoint accuracy and still posses enough force to penetrate the skull of the target. Though her assassin training makes her usually target other areas such as the eyes. With that said, it’s obvious she posses the needed physical strength to throw those daggers effectively and the eyesight to allow her to see her targets.
For melee combat, she prefers to use a sword that the smiths of the north never seen before. What she requested from them was a relatively light curved sword she called scimitar. While she lacks the pure physical prowess of most of the soldiers, her makes it up by speed and the accuracy of her strikes.

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【Weapons/Tools and Magic】
Karen’s equipment is considerably light. She wears no metal armor of any kind and instead is wearing clothes made from leather, furs and fabric. As such she is capable of agile movement and is always warm even when the weather isn’t great. With that she has a leather waist bag where she keeps things such as emergency rations, some spare daggers, a little bit of poison and it’s antidote.
As for her main weaponry, she has her scimitar on her waist, and a good number of daggers hidden in many different places around her clothing.( such as under the leather bracers, in her boots etc…)


Magical Spells
Karen has no spells that I’m aware of!.

I love your milkshakes!(not really cause I never tried a milkshake >_>)

@rivaan

Awesome character! I think the only thing I'm weary about is this: "Karen could throw daggers up to 40 meters with pinpoint accuracy and still posses enough force to penetrate the skull of the target." Forty metres is a fair distance, and if you're using small knives I can't imagine that they'd have much force behind them by the time they reach the target (if they reach the target). I could be completely wrong though, so I'll let y'all discuss it; I'm sure there's someone here that knows a lot more about throwing shit than I do :P

+Also, Partisan made a good point about the amount of knives

[rivaan]

Well for the Michael Bay thing there is one hting I think about when I hear his name: EXPLOSIONS!
well I will change the equipement numbers then ^_^. And from what I read the slavery seems to be legal only in Southarbour for shipbuilding and pitfighting, but then again we all know people will find a way to abuse the system :3.
EDIT: I read on the internet that 45 meters +- is the optimal distance for proffesional throwers. Could aways change it a lil down though what do you thing about 35?

[rivaan]

Number of daggers edited, throwing range edited too~

[Fat Boy Kyle]

@Fat Boy Kyle is slavery legal in Vahili? If so I have an idea for a character, if you'd allow me to have 2.

@Partisan

It's an incredibly grey area. No is the easiest answer. Slaves are only technically legal in Southarbour, which is why many places send their criminals there. Slave soldiers are legal anywhere, but can only be sourced from Southarbour. Most citizens of the Kingdom disagree with slavery, and its only because Southarbour depends so much on them that the trade has been allowed to remain there. You'll probably find illegal slaves all over the place though.

Hider

Man I love making things awkward and complicated >:D

As for character limits, I'm going to say players are allowed a maximum of two for now. So feel free to make another.

[Fat Boy Kyle]

I read on the internet that 45 meters +- is the optimal distance for proffesional throwers. Could aways change it a lil down though what do you thing about 35?

@rivaan

Like I said, I actually have no idea. But I wanted to flag it up just in case. If no one else has a problem with it then you don't need to change it.

EDIT: I see you've changed the distance already :P

[rivaan]

*shurgs and looks around* Well I guess we can wait for a while before approuving her. :) that beign said I think I will watch 13th warrior now. I got the urge to do so while writing Karen.