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Name: Melni Jule Ophel
Aliases: Melly
Titles: Gunsmith
Age: 25
Place of Origin: High Mountain
Kingdom: High Mountain
Gender: Female
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Day To Day Attire: As shown in her image
Strengths:
Can focus intently.
Learned in crafting.
Strong-Headed
Weaknesses:
Greedy
Not Amazingly Athletic
Sexuality: “What?”
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Melni likes to think she is a fairly calm woman, though she can get flustered sometimes and only very rarely when someone doesn’t let her ignore them. In fact, she can go into a deep focus and work on her projects.
That said, she is also highly greedy. If she can make something for a profit, she’ll do it for just about anyone. Just about. This doesn't include people she absolutely despises. Sometimes, she just doesn't like someone so she would refuse to help them. She still has a few points of morals. She doesn’t like to directly harm anyone if she can help it, though she doesn’t mind if her guns are used to kill a few dozen soldiers. Specifically, she doesn't like it when people (at least to her) seem to kill people meaninglessly. It's a waste of life (and possible consumer-base).
Parents: Orphaned, though taken in by an old Gunsmith name Kenneth Ophel at a young age. Deceased.
Siblings: None known of.
Childhood: Melni was a young orphan and was taken in by an old man who wanted to pass down his methods. While she never considered the man a father figure, she considered him a great mentor and caretaker. From a young age, he raised her to inherit his skills. He raised her to be smart, but also greedy and to go for the money. At the age of twelve, like all in High Mountain, she was taught how to handle a gun. Of course, she’s practiced for years prior due to Kenneth’s urging her to test his trials for him.
Soon enough, she went to one of the local Trade Schools, specifically, Jerimaiah’s Machinist School. A school mostly dedicated to metal working. She was slightly above the rest of her peers as her caretaker taught her since she was young but she learned some of the other tricks of the trade that Kenneth never bothered teaching. In fact, they added more than firearms to her repertoire. There they taught of some other types of devices that can be made. Water Filtration, various mining devices and some other things necessary to life in High Mountain. Over the years, Melni would go to school during the day then return home and help Kenneth work on firearms and practice some other things.
This routine went on for some years. Melni’s skills were definitely better but shortly after what was assumed to be her eighteenth birthday, Kenneth died. Apparently he inhaled too much Black Fog in some way or another and he succumbed to the poison. With that... She finished her last two years of school and transitioning into working solo at the same time.
Adulthood: Melni continued her work after trade school, becoming better and better at the job. Many of Kenneth’s contracts became hers such as Wilthrop, a great miner that Kenneth liked to use.
She found, though, that as big a hit as her guns were, one nation that seemed to dislike the use of such marvels of technology were of the nation of Eagrose. It was such an untapped market just waiting to be siphoned... Then it hit her. Heavily armored soldiers. Perhaps she could find a way to produce Coal-Gem armored suits of powered armor. It was easy enough, really. It was like many bigger mechanical wonders. It just needed to fit a person in it. Soon enough, she came up with a prototype for it. It was quite a prototype as well. While not the most amazing piece of equipment she built, it served it’s purpose... Making the armor a reality. Now... To perfect it.
Special Moments: First Big sale of merchandise (Guns), When Kenneth took her in at a young age
Current Events: In High Mountain, continuing her craft. Considering traveling to show off her new technology.
Character Quote: “You need that? Well, fine. If the price is right at least.”
Theme Song: What would be playing when they walk up if we were in a movie?
Aura Color: Shimmering Gold outside with an inner black
Scent: Boom Powder and Singed Cloth
Anything Else:
High Mountain is a heavily industrialized city situated on a mountain range. By pure coincidence, the mountain was found filled with rich resources such as metals and coal and coal gems. As such, many people came to stake their claim. Soon enough, what became a small camp became a small town. Somewhat longer, it became a city. It industrialized rather quickly with the plethora of natural resources at it’s disposal.
Eventually, they decided to stake a full claim as an independent city-state. Quickly, they throw together a council of leaders of most of the groups in the city, or at least those that want to stay in this new sovereign state. The goal of this council was to find the best system to govern the new city. In the end, they decide that a council of each of the major groups as they had was the best idea. Though, as the groups became as one, they eventually phased out and voted for the five most influential people in the city as the Council of Five.
Meanwhile, the city heavily industrialized. There were many problems with this though. The first was a coming lack of land to build on. While there was plenty of space originally, as the city grew and they produced factories, space grew needing. Their first remedy to this was to dig into the mountain side building a lot more of the city into the old mines. While this was not the best solution, it was the most efficient at the time. These housing areas were for those who more often than not mined. Not because they were discriminated against, but rather it made it easier for them to work. In addition, the city was also built up the mountain, utilizing elevators and stairs where necessary.
The second problem was water. As they were high up on the mountain, natural water was hard to come by. To get around this problem, they developed a system to draw natural water from a local river. It worked for a while, but they found that people were getting sick. They narrowed the problem to a certain problem. The heavy industrialization in fact pumped out a lot of the “Black Fog” that covered the ground area of the mountain. The water was unsafe for drinking. With little other choice, they continued drinking the until they contacted the Werneath Institute. The Institute assisted in creating their purification system for the small price of a friendly alliance with it’s home state of Coalmire and the rights to build a branch of the Institute inside the city. High Mountain of course, accepted.
The third problem, and sadly most pressing, is food. High Mountain has no natural source for food that is easily accessible. While it’s a problem, the city handles it in the only real way they know how... Trade. Yes, they trade their surplus of natural resources for the second essential of life. At first, it was fairly easy. The traders would come through the natural passages up the mountain, but as time went on, this method became more and more perilous. Not because of bandits, but because of the same problem that plagued the water source, the “Black Fog.” There were two things that they had as options. The first was the more permanent solution, they carved paths under the ground, safe from the Fog that haunted the above ground. The Grand Path, as it was called, was decently long but was wide enough to allow multiple trains to travel to and from the giant elevators that carried cargo to the city itself.
The second solution to food is the more modern method of Airships. While grand and faster, they are also rarer and less cost efficient. Luckily, there is no lack of supplies in High Mountain. For now.
As far as they go militarily... There is no real organized army. Rather, they are a state of researchers, inventors, engineers, miners and with the addition of the Institute, arguably scholars. Instead, they have training in firearms for every citizen at the age of 12 as a form of state militia. That said, many of their fields of study have to do with the field of firearms or or things of the sort. Mostly, because weapons tend to sell for a lot. There are other things that are produced of course, but when one hears of High Mountain, they think of the guns. Well, maybe just the natural resources.
But, while they are not highly known for it, they also produce armor and other feats of engineering such as small explosive devices called Grenades albeit somewhat primitive.
Education on High Mountain is highly valued, though it’s less in the sense of going to university and more on the tracks of trade schools and apprenticeships though more “formal” education is available with the Werneath Institute. Since much of the work available is related to metal-working or stoneworking or mining, there is a number of schools teaching such skills if not just on the job training. Though,it is also considered proper in the society to learn some skills outside your trade to emphasis ingenuity to think outside the box.
Melni Ophel
Character Summary
Name: Melni Jule Ophel
Aliases: Melly
Titles: Gunsmith
Age: 25
Place of Origin: High Mountain
Kingdom: High Mountain
Gender: Female
Physical Attributes
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Day To Day Attire: As shown in her image
Strengths:
Can focus intently.
Learned in crafting.
Strong-Headed
Weaknesses:
Greedy
Not Amazingly Athletic
Psychological Attributes
Grumpy * Calm * Greedy * Intelligent
Sexuality: “What?”
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Melni likes to think she is a fairly calm woman, though she can get flustered sometimes and only very rarely when someone doesn’t let her ignore them. In fact, she can go into a deep focus and work on her projects.
That said, she is also highly greedy. If she can make something for a profit, she’ll do it for just about anyone. Just about. This doesn't include people she absolutely despises. Sometimes, she just doesn't like someone so she would refuse to help them. She still has a few points of morals. She doesn’t like to directly harm anyone if she can help it, though she doesn’t mind if her guns are used to kill a few dozen soldiers. Specifically, she doesn't like it when people (at least to her) seem to kill people meaninglessly. It's a waste of life (and possible consumer-base).
Skills
A listing of skills, such as horseback riding or cooking. Levels include novice (1 pt), apprentice (2 pt), journeyman (3 pt), expert (4 pt), master (5 pt). Each character can spend 21 points & only two skills can be mastered. If your character knows magic, it counts as a skill.
- Gunsmith (Master): Melni is a master of the gun and knows the intricacies of the weapons and is able to make, repair, use and even create ammunition and the ever important “boom powder” that fuels the things.
- Engineering (Master):Melni knows how to configure components to make equipment of interest as well as using said equipment. She can also familiarize herself with foreign equipment, though blueprints make it much easier.
- Bartering (Journeyman): High Mountain runs on trade, almost literally. Most of the citizens are good at giving a decent value at merely a glance for most basic items. Of course, thorough inspection is needed for more rare items or devices. Having a good bit of experience, Melni knows how to drive a hard bargain.
- Cooking (Journeyman): Through the years, Melni has developed a knack for cooking good tasting meals, even taking it as her secondary at Trade School. While nothing worthy of a five star restaurant, her cooking is on the level of “Momma’s Cooking”.
- Blacksmithing (Expert): In her long years at Trade School, Melni started at Blacksmithing. She knows greatly how to bang out metal into plates, pipes, blades and the like.
History
Parents: Orphaned, though taken in by an old Gunsmith name Kenneth Ophel at a young age. Deceased.
Siblings: None known of.
Childhood: Melni was a young orphan and was taken in by an old man who wanted to pass down his methods. While she never considered the man a father figure, she considered him a great mentor and caretaker. From a young age, he raised her to inherit his skills. He raised her to be smart, but also greedy and to go for the money. At the age of twelve, like all in High Mountain, she was taught how to handle a gun. Of course, she’s practiced for years prior due to Kenneth’s urging her to test his trials for him.
Soon enough, she went to one of the local Trade Schools, specifically, Jerimaiah’s Machinist School. A school mostly dedicated to metal working. She was slightly above the rest of her peers as her caretaker taught her since she was young but she learned some of the other tricks of the trade that Kenneth never bothered teaching. In fact, they added more than firearms to her repertoire. There they taught of some other types of devices that can be made. Water Filtration, various mining devices and some other things necessary to life in High Mountain. Over the years, Melni would go to school during the day then return home and help Kenneth work on firearms and practice some other things.
This routine went on for some years. Melni’s skills were definitely better but shortly after what was assumed to be her eighteenth birthday, Kenneth died. Apparently he inhaled too much Black Fog in some way or another and he succumbed to the poison. With that... She finished her last two years of school and transitioning into working solo at the same time.
Adulthood: Melni continued her work after trade school, becoming better and better at the job. Many of Kenneth’s contracts became hers such as Wilthrop, a great miner that Kenneth liked to use.
She found, though, that as big a hit as her guns were, one nation that seemed to dislike the use of such marvels of technology were of the nation of Eagrose. It was such an untapped market just waiting to be siphoned... Then it hit her. Heavily armored soldiers. Perhaps she could find a way to produce Coal-Gem armored suits of powered armor. It was easy enough, really. It was like many bigger mechanical wonders. It just needed to fit a person in it. Soon enough, she came up with a prototype for it. It was quite a prototype as well. While not the most amazing piece of equipment she built, it served it’s purpose... Making the armor a reality. Now... To perfect it.
Special Moments: First Big sale of merchandise (Guns), When Kenneth took her in at a young age
Current Events: In High Mountain, continuing her craft. Considering traveling to show off her new technology.
Relations
* ☠ Enemy * ⚜ Unfriendly * ☯ Neutral * ☮ Friends * ღ Ally * ♥ Crush/Significant Other *
- Arabelle Ambrose ღ: A woman that Melni met. As far as Melni cares, Arabelle is a decent person that pays for gadgets, though she seems unnecessarily clingy. Seems to be decent at repairs at least.
- Wilthrop Kerming ღ: Wilthrop is a miner by trade, Melni finds that he always has the best raw materials so she tends to buy from him. He also usually goes to her first since she doesn’t skimp on money for good material.
- Melanie Hightower ☮: Melanie is an old classmate of Melni’s. They have a similar name so they were often seated together.
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Extras (Optional)
Character Quote: “You need that? Well, fine. If the price is right at least.”
Theme Song: What would be playing when they walk up if we were in a movie?
Aura Color: Shimmering Gold outside with an inner black
Scent: Boom Powder and Singed Cloth
Anything Else:
High Mountain, the Industrial City on the Mountain
High Mountain is a heavily industrialized city situated on a mountain range. By pure coincidence, the mountain was found filled with rich resources such as metals and coal and coal gems. As such, many people came to stake their claim. Soon enough, what became a small camp became a small town. Somewhat longer, it became a city. It industrialized rather quickly with the plethora of natural resources at it’s disposal.
Eventually, they decided to stake a full claim as an independent city-state. Quickly, they throw together a council of leaders of most of the groups in the city, or at least those that want to stay in this new sovereign state. The goal of this council was to find the best system to govern the new city. In the end, they decide that a council of each of the major groups as they had was the best idea. Though, as the groups became as one, they eventually phased out and voted for the five most influential people in the city as the Council of Five.
Meanwhile, the city heavily industrialized. There were many problems with this though. The first was a coming lack of land to build on. While there was plenty of space originally, as the city grew and they produced factories, space grew needing. Their first remedy to this was to dig into the mountain side building a lot more of the city into the old mines. While this was not the best solution, it was the most efficient at the time. These housing areas were for those who more often than not mined. Not because they were discriminated against, but rather it made it easier for them to work. In addition, the city was also built up the mountain, utilizing elevators and stairs where necessary.
The second problem was water. As they were high up on the mountain, natural water was hard to come by. To get around this problem, they developed a system to draw natural water from a local river. It worked for a while, but they found that people were getting sick. They narrowed the problem to a certain problem. The heavy industrialization in fact pumped out a lot of the “Black Fog” that covered the ground area of the mountain. The water was unsafe for drinking. With little other choice, they continued drinking the until they contacted the Werneath Institute. The Institute assisted in creating their purification system for the small price of a friendly alliance with it’s home state of Coalmire and the rights to build a branch of the Institute inside the city. High Mountain of course, accepted.
The third problem, and sadly most pressing, is food. High Mountain has no natural source for food that is easily accessible. While it’s a problem, the city handles it in the only real way they know how... Trade. Yes, they trade their surplus of natural resources for the second essential of life. At first, it was fairly easy. The traders would come through the natural passages up the mountain, but as time went on, this method became more and more perilous. Not because of bandits, but because of the same problem that plagued the water source, the “Black Fog.” There were two things that they had as options. The first was the more permanent solution, they carved paths under the ground, safe from the Fog that haunted the above ground. The Grand Path, as it was called, was decently long but was wide enough to allow multiple trains to travel to and from the giant elevators that carried cargo to the city itself.
The second solution to food is the more modern method of Airships. While grand and faster, they are also rarer and less cost efficient. Luckily, there is no lack of supplies in High Mountain. For now.
As far as they go militarily... There is no real organized army. Rather, they are a state of researchers, inventors, engineers, miners and with the addition of the Institute, arguably scholars. Instead, they have training in firearms for every citizen at the age of 12 as a form of state militia. That said, many of their fields of study have to do with the field of firearms or or things of the sort. Mostly, because weapons tend to sell for a lot. There are other things that are produced of course, but when one hears of High Mountain, they think of the guns. Well, maybe just the natural resources.
But, while they are not highly known for it, they also produce armor and other feats of engineering such as small explosive devices called Grenades albeit somewhat primitive.
Education on High Mountain is highly valued, though it’s less in the sense of going to university and more on the tracks of trade schools and apprenticeships though more “formal” education is available with the Werneath Institute. Since much of the work available is related to metal-working or stoneworking or mining, there is a number of schools teaching such skills if not just on the job training. Though,it is also considered proper in the society to learn some skills outside your trade to emphasis ingenuity to think outside the box.
