Character Name: Kaliyah The Sharp (Kali for short)
Age and Age at time of original death: Died when she was 16, but has been living as Undead for 32 years.
Sex: Female
Class: Assassin
Skills:Vitality - 10
Endurance - 14
Attunment - 15
Vigor - 10
Strength - 10
Dexerity - 20
Intelligence - 15
Faith - 15
Adaptability - 1
Appearance:
Kali is a fairly short girl, as she died while she was still a very young woman. Barely above five feet and lithe she could be mistaken as a child. Her hair and eyes are a reddish brown, though these turn dark when she is seen as a hollow. She's otherwise conventionally pretty, though the lack of physical maturity makes her arguably less beautiful then other women. Her Dark Sign is on her chest between her collar bones, where her cleavage would be if she had a more prominent bust.
Weapons and Armour/Clothing:Weapons: Kali mainly uses her Estoc for combat, as she is a well trained duelist and knows how to use a thrusting sword against all many of opponents. While she lacks the sheer strength to break through armor and shields with a regular sword, she has the agility and dexterity to work her blade to their weak points, and make sure her strikes hit critical areas. She also has a Sorcerer Staff, a common tool given to all Vinheim mages. It's not particularly unique, but it serves it's purpose as a casting catalyst.
Armor/Clothing: Kali wears a variant of sorcerer clothing, except that she forgoes the gloves for a set of manchettes to protect her arms while fencing, and her clothing is notably darker with a gold trim then the usual deep blue robes most Vinheim Dragon School mages wear. Her clothing, as well as the spells she knows, are the only indication of the surreptitious purpose she was trained to preform.
Rings: Kali wears the Darkwood Grain Ring and the Ring of the Dead. The Darkwood Grain Ring she obtained during her training as a Vinheim assassin, where she had defeated another assassin, taking this ring as her trophy. With it she feels that her body is lighter, allowing her to preform acrobatics more easily and dodge enemy attacks. The Ring of the Dead she obtained after she had become a hollow and saw the horrible effect it had on her appearance. The young girl, still horrified by the curse, sought this ring to retain her humanity, if only in appearance. Kali has also obtained a Ring of Fog, which allows her body to be obscured from afar, and if she stands still could almost be invisible. Her last ring is the Clear Bluestone Ring, which enables her to cast her spells more quickly, and among her general dexterity, shortens her spell casting time just enough that Che could even use her spells while jumping around or falling.
Personality:As an assassin, Kali had to learn to be two-faced without being false. She had to be able to act with nearly two different personalities without relying on masks, as her targets could sense lies, but deception was a harder thing to perceive. Thus while Kali can seem like two different people at times, in truth both sides are her truth self, one more exaggerated then the other.
The side that Kali shows to others is an innocent, curious girl who believes in the best of others. Even if they are notorious for villainy, she can hold onto the hope that their skills could be used for good. She can have a bit of an active imagination and at times, can be quite superstitious. She is the type of person who will make monsters out of shadows, mountains out of molehills. But she can be loyal to a fault, siding with others even when they are wrong, but she does have a sense of justice that would at least allow her to try and convince her wrong-doing friends to change their ways, either gradually or immediately.
But there is another side to Kali, the side that she uses when she must be a professional. This side makes decisions, is often pragmatic, and cares only for the success of a goal, regardless of how it's accomplished. This is Kali's personality for assassination, as it holds no room for emotions like guilt, regret, or even fear. It will think about how to best complete an objective in the most quickest, efficient matter, sacrificing whatever is unnecessary or temporary for greater prizes. This side of Kali cares very little about morality such as good or evil, and sees everything as merely a tool to use for good or evil.
Both sides of Kali are simply different perspectives of a same trait, which she uses to masquerade into people's good graces even if she is suppose to kill them. Her accepting, pragmatic side of her, the one that can see the goodness even in evil and cares only for what it's capable of, not what it was made for or by whom, also has given her an interest in studying Hexes and Abyss Magic, even though such things are exactly what the Abyss Walkers fight against. She intends to use it against the Abyss of course, but all the same, she is exposing herself to the very thing they seek to destroy. She wishes to harness it's power, even if it may destroy her in the attempt.
Biography:Kali is was a student of the Vinheim Dragon School. From a young age she earned the name "Kaliyah The Sharp" for showing not only a great aptitude for magic, but also cunning swordplay. Indeed, while she was quick to attune herself to her staff at the age of ten, by the age of thirteen she had shown promise at fencing. Kaliyah's parents, both still students of the Vinheim Dragon School, were interested in what sort of education their daughter would obtain. As they were both purist mages, they had hoped her daughter would use her wits to also pursue a mastery of sorceresses. And while Kali certainly did show interest, the way of the blade caught her interest much more.
When her teachers found her talent with a rapier nearly matched her skills with a staff, they enrolled her in classes focused around stealth and sound manipulation. These teachers were grooming Kali to become a Spook, an assassin who combined deadly swordplay and spellcasting to become skilled and well-paid killers. And being sharp, Kali was well aware of this. She knew that her teachers intended to sell her service to high bidders, reaping the rewards of her actions while considering her expendable. If she had resisted them, then they would have denied her education at the school and prevent her from ever furthering her career as a sorcerer. So Kali played along, acting as if she was merely a student eager to please. This two-faced personality would serve her well in the future.
It wasn't long however before tragedy struck. One day while Kali was out training, she was attacked by her fellow students. She was unaware of their jealousy and the perceived threat she was against their futures, and together they had waited until she was alone and away from the teachers to personally assassinate her. She fought them off and killed many through her skillful swordplay and cunning tactics, but ultimately was taken down after being overwhelmed by their blades and spells. But that was not the last they would hear of Kali. As she was left to bleed out in the grass, she felt a burning sensation in her chest. It was painful, more painful then swords piercing her body. It harmed not only her body, but her soul. When she looked down she had seen that she was branded with the Darksign. That she was now one of the accursed undead.
When Kali came to she was exactly where she had been slain. Her wounds were gone, her clothes mended, and oddly enough she felt much better than she had prior to blacking out. However her memories were still lucid. Around her she saw the bloodstains of the students she had killed, their bodies taken away with the survivors. Seeking vengeance for her death Kali utilized her skills taught to her and hunted down her killers. One by one she got the drop on the students who had participated in her assassination, killing them in their sleep or stabbing them in the back when their guards were lowered. As she slew more of her students, the survivors as well as other staff at the school were on guard. But Kali's vengeance would not be so easily slated.
Knowing that her current skills would not be enough, she started to expand her repository of spells. She learned how to imbue her weapon with magic, to improve it's cutting edge against her foes. She practiced her swordplay in not only offense, but also defense, being able to parry and riposte her foe with greater ease. Kali learned how to grow and harvest valuable herbs and moss to treat her wounds or give her the boost she needed for an assassination. Eventually she gathered all knowledge she needed for one last job: to kill the one responsible for her death.
As it turns out, it was not just a student who wanted her dead, but a teacher. Not because she was any threat to him, but because he wanted her to improve and become a better assassin. He had killed her on the off-chance that she could possibly be undead, knowing that she would seek vengeance and slay her killers. If she was a fool she would have simply tried to storm the school and take our her targets by force, though such barbaric tactics would never work against them, let alone against those who protect the school from such brutes. But the fact she instead resorted to stealth and subtly, improving her skills right underneath the nose of her murderers, just proved that he had made Kali into a better killer. And he certainly saw first hand just how good of an assassin she was when she impaled him through the chest, her blade glowing with magic energy, and his mansion burning around him.
Before Kali had left, she had taken the liberties to scour the teacher's library for valuable information. She was originally looking for scrolls and tomes of magic she could try to learn from on her own time. Normally the teachers would have to give lessons and explain each page of their magic tomes before students could even begin to understand the spells stored inside, but Kali was confident that she could learn more than enough by herself. However one of the tomes she came across was very, very interesting. For it detailed of a dark and mysterious force known as the Abyss. Though feared for it's corrupting influence even on such powerful beings as gods and kings, there were powerful sorceries that could be harnessed from the dark. Curious, Kali decided that she had graduated the Dragon School and left Vinheim to seek out this Abyss. It was during this journey that she found Farron's Undead Legion, such as the Abyss Watchers. An order of warriors who fight the Abyss's corruption. Kali cared very little about stopping it's spread, but she pretended she did and joined the Undead Legion. This way she would have all the reason to be close to the dark powers of the Abyss, and harness it for her own gain.
Spells/Pyromancies/Hexes/Miracles:Spook
Magic Weapon
Farron Dart
Inventory: Estus Flask x5
Silver Talisman x5
Green Blossom x3
Sovereignless Soul x3
Binoculars
