✖|| Full Name||✖ Zolya Erling
✖|| Aliases ||✖ Freya, Runemother(Black Moon society)
✖|| Age ||✖ 41
✖|| Gender ||✖ Female
✖|| Nationality ||✖ Norwegian
✖|| Ethnicity ||✖ Norse
✖|| Hair ||✖ Long wavy brown hair with a distinct streak of grey on both sides pulled back together with part of the hair at the back into a large intricate rolled knot.
✖|| Eye color ||✖ Olive green
✖|| Body ||✖ Even in her aging state she has been described as being 'soft on the eyes' with her delicate frame and... Ehrm 'well endowed bosom' graced with a supple smooth light skin that would be more fitting on a 20 something year old. In fact the only place where there is any visible aging would be the head with some wrinkles on the cheeks and all around the mouth, and some more subtle signs of aging around the eyes.
Of course this is all just a ruse Concocted with the help of an engraved jewel in the rolled knot.
Beyond that she has a couple tattoos on her head and collarbone in a tasteful runic style, apparently these are supposed to help with the absorption of mana from the environment. A much larger runic script covers her back, but it's exact purpose is unknown to all but her.
✖|| Height ||✖ 5'10" - 177.2cm
✖|| Weight ||✖ 165lbs - 75kg
✖|| Hometown||✖: Ålesund, Norway
✖|| Affiliation(s)||✖: Raudd Erling, Black Moon society(full member)
✖|| Face Claim ||✖ Vaulter leader - Endless space 2
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✖ Personality ✖:{ Curious | Kind | cheeky | Complacent | Skeptical }
Kindness is something that can easily become someone's downfall, but in Zolya's case where her kindness is tempered with a skeptical view on the world and zone of the shining examples living in it. Instead she is content to focus on her research as a subject to satisfy her curiosity and as her source of self-satisfaction, there aren't even any aspirations of anything grand there just content to be left to her study of her craft and to see where it leads her.
She has a little cheeky side where she likes to add a little innuendo or just a whole lot of it, even if there is no innuendo to be found witty remarks are quite common.
✖|| Likes ||✖✔ Strawberry sweets
✔ Black tea
✔ Rosemary
✔ Traveling
✔ Innuendo
✖|| Dislikes ||✖✗ Halcyon and it's goons
✗ Not being able to go home
✗ Carbonated drinks
✗ Pop music
✗ Fashion
✖|| Fears ||✖☠ Surgery
☠ Dark mages
☠ Losing her sense of self
✖|| Skills ||✖★ painting - Whether it be oil, water or enamel, if it contains pigment and can be applied with a brush she'll have some proficiency at applying it.
★ Swordmanship - While not amazing by most standards she is able to defend herself decently well with a sword and do so with some grace in her movement.
★ Multilingual - able to speak, write and read both English and Norwegian fluently, also has an extensive vocabulary in runic.
★ Gardening - Though limited to potted plants it is quite a handy skill to keep your windowsill herbs and general greenery alive.
★ Good memory - She picks up random bits of knowledge from everywhere and anywhere, but her ability really shines when challenging her short term memory.
✖|| Costume Identity ||✖Uniform: Preferring to wear a slightly more formal variety of the
robes compared to her brother Zolya wears light grey robe of layered cotton with a very minute golden thread detailing along the cleavage, a double set of grey leather clasped belts across the midriff secure the robe to the body and close it off. A small white sash dark grey patterning and golden detailing hangs from the lower of the two belts and at it's lowest point on the left side holds the scabbard of Zoyla's blade. A set of cotton fingerless gloves with an attached covering for the lower arm on the right arm both in a dark grey color with heavy golden detailing. She also has a tendency to wear rings on all her fingers with a variety of stone set in them.
Equipment: A longsword with an extensive patterning on the blade in an almost translucent blue paint. Though it is mostly for ceremonial usage it is well maintained and can certainly be used in a practical manner.
A sizable leatherbound hardcover book with decorative metal hinges and a binding that allows it to be rebound quite easily. It contains the many of the small scale spells and some of the more useful single use spells.
✖|| Background ||✖For the most part Zolya had a quiet childhood and early adulthood. A loving family, good grades in school, a load of girlfriends and eventually after finishing her road through the education system a cushy job at a travel agency. Really nothing to complain about.
Somewhere along the line Zolya and her brother Raudd got it in their heads to save up some money and go on a cruise, mostly at Zolya's insistence. She had always wanted to go on a big sightseeing tour in style, but she also really wanted someone along to share the experience with. So eventually when the time came when they had enough money saved up they found a shortish cruise well within budget that would take them along a part of the eastern United States.
That's where things went oh so horribly wrong, somewhere along the cruise armed men forced their way on board the ship and took everyone hostage. Not too long after they found themselves herded into a massive ritual formation where a few dozen cloaked figures awaited them. At this point it was clear to everyone on board that this wasn't a ransom situation, they were going to be sacrificed, but even as the panic set in with people none were able to flee as in a trance like state their bodies refused to move other than upon the instructions of the the head of the cloaked figures.
As the ritual began people dropped like flies their lives being fed to the ritual, but among the chanting of the cloaked figures the sounds of shouting, gunfire and explosions could be heard. Then what looked like a chunk of ice hit one of the cloaked figures, hard enough to bash his skull into a bloody splatter of pulp and blood breaking the concentration of other nearby casters. This caused the ritual to collapse in on itself with an ear shattering roar sucking in the lives of the remaining casters and the abductees, only Raudd and Zolya seemed to be unharmed by some miracle.
Though that wasn't the end of it the both of them ended up being shot at as they tried to escape from the area, Zolya had been hit in her leg and fallen over, but Raudd took most of the brunt getting shot in the chest twice and taking one to the back of the neck, killed by the last few bullets of the battle. He keeled over as Zolya screamed in horror watching as his body disinterested into some kind of vapor. When the vapor recombined and Raudd appeared from it safe and sound Zolya just broke down crying leaving a very confused Raudd staring at his crying sister.
The events that passed between that point and them waking up in some large countryside manor seem to have been permanently removed by whomever saved them that day. The manor in question turned out to be the home of the Valentin family a family of awakened with deep ties with the Black Moon society. The two of them stayed in the manor for a few months trying to grapple their new situations, and for Zolya to receive education with regards to her new awakened nature.
Eventually the two of them found themselves at titan's fall looking for a place to remain outside of the view of the governments who might be interested to know what happened with the rest of the people on the cruise ship, with the Undercity being just the place for that. Using her abilities as an awakened Zolya began taking commissions for various 'art pieces' many of which would be used to 'decorate' the houses of her select clientele, though the occasional piece of jewelry does leave her atelier as wall. Unfortunately most of her clientele would pay exclusively in SC leading to her becoming a familiar face at the only bank in the Undercity, as standard credits just can't be exchanged for food in the Undercity.
✖ Powers ✖: || Rune magic || Shaker 6 / Striker 6 { Subclass(s): }
"I must admit it is somewhat impressive, I carve a couple symbols into a rock and she managed to make said rock spew a gout of flame by 'simply' pouring her mana into it. From what she has shown me I get the impression that the only real limit is her creativity and the size of her 'medium'." ~Raudd
Rune magic is interesting in the fact that it dabbles in many different fields and it has the ability to create a pathway of mimicking the abilities of the Adepts as a magician. In theory it is also a fairly straightforward way of employing mana as long as one understands it's strict set of rules, in practice however there are so many details that require ones attention.
Runes physically carved into a material will yield better results than runes written onto, performance can further be improved by accentuating the carvings with paints. Then there is the medium itself that must be considered, different materials give vastly different performances and have themselves a favoring for certain types of magic (not to mention their own problems; Do you write the runes across or along the grain of the wood?). A general rule of thumb can be followed here however as long as the nature of the spell doesn't collide with the nature of the medium the more permanent the more pronounced the effect, making glass, stone, metals and gemstones quite favorable, where ice, clay and wet ink unfavorable and god forbid one tries to draw runes with sand as their medium. Furthermore most runes to have any degree of efficiency in turning mana into the manifestation of the spell requires a network of decorations and support runes to be created around the core spell. Not to mention the words themselves which have a rather cryptic ways of working together and might have a twisted meaning compared to what one might expect.
Considering the above factors I consider the possibility of creating a new spell on the fly to be an impossible task, that being said with the right tools and skillset what one could create with this magic could benefit the entire magic community.
>List of spells still under construction>
Zolya's spelllist Weakness/drawbacks:- Strength depends on the medium
- Mana conversion efficiency depends the quality, amount and location of the core runes, support runes and the decorations surrounding it
- Damaged or unreadable runes can alter or break spell effects
- Activating runes requires some form of physical contact with the rune
- Writing a new spell takes time as consideration has to be taken with the design
- Any awakened capable of pouring mana into an object can activate runes that have already been activated once
Power Origins: Zolya awakened somewhere in the process of the botched pagan ritual, the exact point of awakening isn't known. Another curiosity is that despite her talent in rune magic she seems utterly unable to use any other form of magic.
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