Behind the Avatar

Ha Yun

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• Age: 19
• Gender: Female
• Name: Ha Yun
• Bio:
  Due to her low self-esteem and not being confident about her own appearance (mainly due to her height (1,80m) which was much higher than the average. Other than that, she was considered to be a very beautiful woman), she underwent a treatment, which included playing games in order to "create" the ideal self image as an avatar, and with time, accept her own appearance. Not surprisingly, she started to like playing games and even after the treatment ended, she continued doing so. They were always so more fun and lively than the normal world.
  
  People in real world tired Ha-Yun... Always wearing masks, living lies, never being honest with others and themselves. It was just like they... forgot they were lying and started to live their own lies... Ironically, in MMOs, where one could wear a "virtual" mask and be completely anonym, people were so more.... honest. They lived how they really wanted to live in the real world, they seemed so more happy and healthy. That was exactly why Ha-Yun started to like MMOs and other games. For her, games were more than just a hobby, they were a way to run from the pressure from real life, a place where she could dance without suffering the pressures from doing it professionally and just be happy.
  
  Every new game that promised to be more "lifelike" and real you could expect her to be playing it. Every day, after the endless activities she was forced to do she locked herself in her room and did the only thing that made her happy: immersed herself in the virtual world and forgot about everything.
  
  Ha Yun discovered Yggdrasil when some online friends started playing it and invited her. She immediately became fascinated by the sheer complexity and content of the game. There were so many things to do, so many different classes, both the PVE and the PVP aspects of the game were so interesting that it quickly became the only MMO she played.

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The Avatar:

• Name: Nyna, The Moon's Shadow
• Race: Demi-Human, Rabbitmen
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Her dark skin, blonde, longhair and the rabbit ears on her head coupled with her lean, elegant body and the fact that she doesn't cover her body that much (she needs to move freely and cannot carry too many things because of her fighting style) give her an exotic, almost mesmerizing beauty. On Yggdrasil, people often stopped to see her avatar, saying that it was very well done, but on the New World, every time she goes to a city or somewhere with a lot of people, its almost impossible to remain unnoticed, as her exotic appearance attracts a lot of stares.
• Level: 100
• Alignment: -50
• Racial Class:
  - Beastmen (15)
  - Rabbitmen (15)
• Job Class:
  - Sword Dancer (10)
  - Sword Master (10)
  - Ninja (10)
  - Duelist (15)
  - Rogue (15)
  - Moon's Shadow (5)
  - Others (5)
• Fighting Style: Instead of invisibility and stealth, Nyna focus entirely on agility and mobility, going as far as to use her mobility to make her strikes have a big impact even if she isn't that physically strong. The Lunar Edge is a rather heavy weapon, due to its weight, but with the certain techniques, footwork and control of your own body, she is able to move extremely fast with it. Using her entire body as a weapon together with the Lunar Edge, she uses her legs to throw powerful kicks together with the blade, this makes her fighting style incredibly unpredictable and tricky to defend. Its strikes are deceptively strong, and carry a surprising impact and momentum. Using the Lunar Edge is almost like dancing.
  
  To compensate the complete lack of armor, Nyna has a plethora of 'tricks' up her sleeve. Using ninpou and magic, she can prove to be a very troublesome opponent.
• Strengths: Hybrid, agile combat style mixing magic and powerful strikes. Extreme mobility and agility.
• Weaknesses: Complete lack of armor, vulnerability to crowd control effects, take away her mobility and she will have trouble even attacking you. Loud noises, her enhanced hearing can be a blessing, but also a curse, sonic type attacks are very effective against her.

• Lunar Edge [+]

  This weird shaped blade requires the user to have an almost unnatural control over its own body in order to use it effectively. Every attack with it is deceptively strong, thanks to the user having to use its entire body and mass to strike with it, its circular motions and the razor sharp edge. The unique aspect of this divine item is the ability to reflect any offensive spell directed at its user as long as the user holds it vertically between him and the spell. It's also a catalyst to conjure spells (although only from a select list of spells, such as spells from the ninja class, the "Moon's Shadow" class and some other minor spells). She earned this weapon together with a title after completing a secret chain of quests, giving her the title of "Lunar Shadow"
  
• Kitsune's trickery - This necklace further enhances the user's agility and mobility, making it able to climb and even run on walls and other difficult terrains. Additionally, it gives the user a very heightened balance, making it able to abruptly change the direction it is going even in the middle of a dash.
• Shin guards of the Gyokuto - These light shin guards are the only piece of armor that Nyna wears. They offer a good resistance against physical attacks, gives the user an almost unending stamina and makes the target immune to the 'slow' effect (but not other movement impairing effects)

• Sun and Moon: The Lunar edge possesses strange powers. By passing her body through the blade, Nyna is able to create a solid clone to attack with her. The copy has the same strength as her, has the same equipment, but every attack and debuff that her or her copy suffer will be carried over to her main body and doubled when the ability ends.
• Danse Macabre: Nyna throws the Lunar Edge towards her targets, the lunar edge bounces in the air multiple times (almost like if it was inside an invisible box with her target) , with an incredible speed. This 'box' has an area of 10x10m. The box only exists for her blade, it has no effect over other items or living entities.
• Irregular Block: Thanks to the Lunar Edge's exotic nature, and Nyna's flexibility, parrying and dodging melee blows with it is easier than normal blades (mostly due to its circular shape and the movements needed to wield it).
• Flicker: Very small range teleports (only 2m at max) that can be used repeatedly to escape attacks and create a "flicker" like effect, making even more difficult to track her movements.
• Soul Divider: Dashes forward, cutting the target in the blink of an eye. This ability not only deals physical damage, but also drains the target mana in 50% (the mana draining effect works only once per target).
• Ninpou - Rai Ninja skill, infuses her weapon with lightning element. It's effects grow stronger depending on the Lunar Shadow's speed as she swings it, it makes enemies flinch, canceling conjurations and has a chance to inflict paralysis. If used together with Danse Macabre, it creates a thunderstorm inside the Danse Macabre's area.
• Ninpou - Fu: Ninja skill, infuses her weapon with the wind element. It makes her able to control the Lunar Edge's movements as it flies, and forms an invisible "wind blade" around her weapon, increasing its reach (something like a ghost blade. Even if you feel like you barely dodged it, it still cuts you).

Nyna's exotic appearance always draws attention, especially on bigger cities, since beastmen are not that common. Other than that, only few people realize that she is actually dangerous.

Behind the Avatar

Akane Hikawa

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• Age: 22
• Gender: Female
• Name: Akane Hikawa
• Bio:
  Akane Hikawa, the only heir of the Hikawa group an extremely big and wealthy company, led by none other than Kazuo and Mai Hikawa, Akane's parents.
  Being raised by such successful entrepreneurs, it was no surprise that Akane ended up taking some of her parents' "qualities", such as an extremely sharp tongue, an ruthlessly effective way of thinking (which sometimes could even be somewhat cruel).
  
  But regardless of that fact, Akane's parents were rarely at home. She spent the majority of her life by herself, and as such is a very independent woman, money was never a problem, but differently from what one would expect of a girl born in a wealthy family, she didn't receive that much attention. Her parents were often traveling or working. The only signal that they sent to her that they existed were her allowance.
  
  Nowadays, Akane is one of the leaders of Hikawa corporation and the director of a new department she just opened, focused on online games. Gaming happens to be one of her hobbies (more specifically, Yggdrasil Online), and she knows more than anyone that a good MMO can move a ludicrous amount of money, especially if it becomes an e-sport. Her new, modern view were very welcome to the Hikawa group, revitalizing it and making it catch up with the modern and ever changing tendencies.

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The Avatar:

• Name: Yasha
• Race: Humanoid - Elf
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: With an incredibly white skin and wearing a black kimono inspired by the traditional Japanese clothes and long black stockings, Yasha has a long, white hair, she keeps tied with traditional Japanese hair sticks.
• Level: 100
• Alignment: -100
• Racial Class: Humanoid - Elf
• Job Class:
  - Gunner (15)
  - Sniper (10)
  - Stalker (10)
  - Elementalist - Air (10)
  - Disciple of Disaster (5)
  - World Disaster (5)
  - Spell Sniper (5)
  - War Wizard (10)
  - Etc. (30)
• Fighting Style: Yasha is a long-extreme range specialist while using her rifle. Her firepower is undeniable with it, as she can either shoot precise, magic projectiles (which she is able to imbue with elemental spells and change their property), bombard her enemies with spells or even go as far as to shoot living magic artillery shells while using a specialized spell to assist her with the trajectory and to have an almost complete view of the battlefield.
  
  Yasha has also some wind spells focused only on utility and mobility, giving her means to run away if someone gets too near her. While shooting, it's impossible to hide her position, but after shooting, she uses her wind magic and her stalker class bonuses to move quickly and reposition, letting no traces behind. It's also extremely useful if she needs to run away from a battle.
• Strengths: Extremely high dps at mid-extreme range, high mobility and utility thanks to wind magic. Many people told her that taking the World Disaster class (an extremely difficult class to obtain) only to use it in her "magic sniper" build was something idiotic to do. But she proved them wrong. Yasha became a terribly powerful ranged mage, capable of eliminating single targets with precision or wiping out a horde of monsters by shooting magic artillery on them.
• Weaknesses: Complete lack of physical armor, has no melee offensive capabilities, artillery spells have a rather long casting time. Hiding her position is impossible, since Requiem Aeternam's projectiles leave a distinct trail of raw mana leading directly to her position.

• Requiem Aeternam [+]

  A magic rifle that doubles as a magic catalyst. An extremely powerful rifle, it is capable of working even with extreme amounts of magic, where other magic rifles would stop working or not work with 100% efficiency. It can shoot not only pure, raw destructive mana projectiles which deals neutral magic damage, but it can also imbue these magic projectiles with different elements or even spells.
  It can also solidify this raw mana, either becoming a pure, crystalline projectile which inflicts physical damage or only form a thin shell around it, housing a spell inside it. Upon impact, the shell will break, letting the spell out. This unique ability affects all projectiles shot by this weapon, be them abilities or not.
  
• Set of the Fallen God - This full set was designed especially for magic casters. It focuses on amplifying the user's magic, mana and magic regen several times, and offers a very good magic resistance, but it offers no armor at all.
  Originally, its cosmetic design was very different, but Yasha changed it to something more fashionable.
  Additionally, when complete, the set also offers a special ability: Decree of the Fallen God. This ability allows the user to sacrifice 25% of its max health to make one attack ignore any type of defense, be it magic or physical.

• Living Magic Artillery Shell: A devastating spell, it has a long casting time, but it deals ludicrous amounts of damage by literally shooting a magic artillery shell out of her rifle, exploding in a huge magic pillar (similar to the "Fallen Down" magic pillar) when it hits it's target. This ability can also be modified by the Requiem Aeternam's projectile modifiers to either make it work like a real bomb (by making it explode with elemental energy, not only dealing the damage of the explosion, but creating an napalm like effect), to make it 100% physical, by shooting a big crystallized mana projectile, which will not explode or as a fragmentation shell, which will explode in many smaller, weaker shells, covering a large area.
• Multi-Lock: Shoots up to 5 simultaneous homing magic projectiles, locking onto enemies.
• Target Acquiring Spell: Toggleable spell which creates a magic screen around Yasha. This magic screen shows an aerial view of the battlefield and assists her with the calculations necessary to make the perfect shot. It's an enhanced version of the "Distant Vision" spell.
• Bombardment: Instead of shooting magic projectiles in a line, it sends 15 exploding projectiles in an arc. They hit the ground randomly in a big area, exploding and causing AoE magic and physical damage. This ability is not affected by the Requiem Aeternam's projectile modification ability.
• Requiem Aeternam - Regular Shot: Regular shot of the Requiem Aeternam.
• Perfect Unknowable: It erases one's traces and sounds, making the magic caster very difficult to detect if they did not have very high-level thief-type job classes.
• Fly: Pretty straightforward spell. By using her wind magic, Yasha is able to either fly or glide through the ground at high speeds.

Other than the exotic clothing and the fact that she carries a long, white rifle on her back, nothing. Those who are able to feel magic will indeed be able to feel an oppressive amount of mana coming from her.

Behind the Scenes

Name: Liana Forsyth
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Bio: Born in the burgh of St. Andrew's in Scotland, a scenic seaside town known for its prestigious university and impressive cathedral, Liana demonstrated an imaginative, playful nature from the very get-go. Her family, while poor in terms of money, enjoyed strong bonds; her mother, father, brother, and aunt all lived in the same household, and the young girl knew that she had an uncle as well, but that he was far away on a boat and wouldn't be back for a long time. Curious, carefree, and prone to wandering, she often explored the shoreline and the ominous cathedral ground, which she found particularly thrilling. Most of all Liana liked walking to the university, which drew enough students from all over Europe to comprise up to a third of the town's population at any given time, and talking to everyone she found. Though she didn't necessarily understand what the people she met had to say, she listened with such an enthusiastic energy that few could help but to smile and let Liana call them 'friend.'

Back home, Liana often wiled away her time with her brother playing games, starting out on her dad's old console. Ross was the one who got his younger sister into games in the first place, and eventually she joined him in the game Yggdrasil early in its -and her- life cycle. Cheerful and obliging, she was pleased to let his creativity take the reign and envision her character: a holy princess, slain in a tragic accident but brought back to 'life' by a mad sorcerer at her father's behest. Something about playing a flesh-manipulating monstrosity that acted like a sweet, polite gentlewoman was inordinately funny to her. With the character's blend of dark tankiness and support, she had a lot of fun, never facing much competition for her role and always receiving plenty of appreciation -or at least tolerance- from anyone she happened to party up with.

Yggdrasil became more than just a way to pass free time when her uncle returned from overseas, three quarters of the man he once was. Having never known him, Liana was at first afraid of and distant from the depressed, antisocial man that worried his only family. Money grew shorter, and Emile's feelings of worthlessness deepened as he became aware that he was weighing his brother's household down. Liana did come to feel his pain, and to want desperately to help him, but she had no idea how. An idea eventually came in the form of her dog, who would unabashedly approach and cozy up to Emile whenever he saw him. Eventually Liana decided just to be her own happy self, and bit by bit she broke down Emile's wall. It was during that time that, seeking to distract him from his depression, Liana suggested that they play her favorite game together. The rest, as they say, was history.

In the end, though, Liana lost interest far faster than her uncle. Though she cherished being able to bring him back out of his shell with the game, it was never about escapism for her as it was for him. She still loved to explore and meet people when not occupied with school or friends, but for a while Emile didn't have a lot outside the confines of his desktop. After some time Lina quit, feeling that she'd exhausted all the fun the game had to offer. Only years later, in the MMO's closing hours, did she return alongside her uncle to celebrate for old times' sake. The two had remained good friends even after Emile got a job, all thanks to the girl's original act of kindness, and both felt that the close of Yggdrasil's world would solidify the end of a chapter in their lives and allow Emile to fully move on.

Instead, the game became more real than either could have ever imagined.

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The Avatar

Name: Lenore XIII
Appearance: At first glance Liana appears to be a woman in an elaborate, layered dress intermingled with leather, but any more observation and it becomes clear that she wears a very different hide. From boot to coif, every inch of her clothing is a fleshy extension of her body, molded into a variety of shapes and textures. Though her form resembles a human's, its clear that she takes no great pains to hide her monstrosity; jagged fangs line the edges of much of her attire, for instance. This is essentially what she looks like
Race: Heteromorphic
Gender: Female
Character Level: 60
Alignment: 400 (Exceptionally good, a hero of the people)
Racial Class:
-Shoggoth (5)
-Flesh Golem (10)
Job Class:
-Flesh Smith (10)
-Blood Knight (10)
-Deaconess (10)
-Cleric (15)
-Cultist (15)
Fighting Style: This character's strategy is simple: get aggro and start soaking up the punishment. At the start of a fight there's not typically much she can do except get whaled on, mitigate a lot of it through defense, and heal whatever damage gets through via various means, but as the fight progresses things she gains more power. The amount of carnage feeds directly into her ability to provide utility for her allies and afflict her enemies with crippling statuses and DoTs. In short, she concentrates on incredible, sustainable tankiness until she can snowball into overwhelming damage.
Strengths: Her primary selling point is definitely her tankiness. The amount of damage she can eat up is astonishing even for players and mobs of higher level. However, she does provide more utility to allies than taking the heat off of them. She can also heal them and wipe away their debuffs to an extent, if she's not too busy managing her resources to empower herself or create all sorts of monsters
Weaknesses: Her overall damage, even toward the end of a fight in which she's managed to accumulate a lot of biomass and enhancements, is unremarkable. It's pretty much nothing at one's beginning. Her mobility is also low, and she hosts weaknesses to both fire and light magic. In the new world she also tends to attract unwanted attention even in everyday circumstances, mostly in the form of resentment and disgust but boiling over into hatred and violence unfortunately often. Perhaps more importantly, despite the nasty nature of her race and abilities, Liana didn't play this character as evil. Instead, she only ever used her as a heroine, meek and compassionately helping the weak and needy people she encountered in-game
Equipment:
Crucifix of Nag'shi Kraw – the signature staff of the boss of the dungeon, Rotmilch Glen. Well-known for the obscurity of the questline that led there, its abusive average completion time of two hours, and the resulting outrageous queue time, it went unused for the most part. This decorated staff embodies the dichotomy of 'cure and curse', amplifying healing spells cast by it but preventing the use of all but plant, poison, and earth spells for offense. A lowland druid renowned for her incredible magical talent and equally expansive ego once delved into a forbidden wood in search of power. The murky, hideous secrets she unearthed melded her with an ancient spirit of corruption to become the inhuman witch Nag'shi Kraw, whose blight corrupted the woodland into a fetid, unholy swampland plagued by darkness
Abilities:
Foul Flesh – the core passive ability of the Flesh Golem racial class. Every part of a Flesh Golem is alive, even after broken off from the whole, and aside from enjoying an increased regeneration of wounds they can also reattach lost body parts. Are these twisted, malformed mistakes truly alive? At the very least, whatever they are, it is excessively difficult to convince them to stop being so
Meat Invade – a skill inherent to the Flesh Golem racial class. If cut off from the main body, the still-living part of a Flesh Golem's body can be commanded to attack the enemy rather than try to reattach. The Golem's meat can actually enter enemies' bodies through wounds and attack from within, applying a nasty DoT. Getting hurt is one thing; getting invaded is another. So vile are these nightmarish freaks that even the slabs you cut off them seek to burrow into your flesh
Despicable Thing – a passive ability of the Shoggoth racial class triggered on sight. Entities not explicitly allied to her or with less than 250 alignment are repulsed by her, massively increasing the amount of aggro she draws from them. In the new world, this works as a sort of hate aura, driving enemies to prioritize attacking her over her allies, and even out of combat it's always on to a much lesser degree. Shoggoth—a name created by man to label something he was never meant to understand. The sight of a thing beyond our ken awakens something primal within us, like a body rejecting a transplanted organ. We can't help but to want it gone, and to return to our blissful naivety
Formless Horror – a skill inherent to the Shoggoth racial class that allows her to manipulate her own shape. Compared to Doppelgangers, it is slower, more limited, and substantially more obvious, but in her case her race interacts with her Flesh Smith class to grant her more convincing self-transformation the more biomass she has. For the writhing, throbbing freaks we call Shoggoths, having only one form must be positively blasé. With their exact shape they always keep us guessing, but no matter what form they take, the stench is always the same
Renewal – a passive ability of the Deaconess class that grants high HP regeneration. All novices in the clergy eagerly await the day their God recognizes their cultivated faith and good works, and as a sign of favor bestows a boon of vibrant health
Cleanse – a skill of the Deaconess class that removes negative status effects on the user or an ally, though not spells with a higher level than the user's own. Just as doctors treat the body of its sicknesses, priests treat people of their afflictions, but of the two remedies holy love tends to work greater miracles
Blood-starved – a passive ability of the Blood Knight class that contributes immensely to her tankiness. It manifests as an aura of ferocious hunger like red and yellow steam rising from the skin, and it causes any kind of healing performed by a non-ally within 50 meters of her to heal her instead of its intended target. This includes self-heals. Bloodlust is altogether familiar for Berserkers and the like, but for Blood Knights it's an entirely different beast. So intense and violent is their hunger that the learn to soak in their foes' pitiful attempts at recovery, so that the slaughter may continue unabated
Terrify – a passive ability of the Blood Knight class that increases the amount of Fear that Lenore's acts of violence and horror create. Just as in the old world, in this new one it builds up over time to cause an unavoidable paralysis or flee depending on enemies' mental fortitude. There comes a point in every war where the horror overflows its cup. Every soul can be broken, and when soulfelt fear takes a hammer to one's resolve, only two fates remain: run or freeze
The Flesh that Hates – a skill of the Flesh Smith class used to conjure bloody needles to embed into biomass. Once enough of her foul magic is inside the flesh, she can sculpt it as she pleases, altering its internal and external structure and even bringing it to life to create monsters for offensive or defensive use. It takes more MP expenditure to take control of living things, but if she manages to, she can mold their own flesh as she pleases as well. Being her absolute favorite ability, this has been developed to a degree where it can essentially polymorph afflicted targets, or mutilate a couple of corpses into a ravenous monster, with startling swiftness. Blaspheming occultists, having delved into the darkest of magics, often diverge in favor of the body or the soul. Of the two it is hard to say which is more wretched. Unburdened by humanity, the Flesh Smiths melt down the bodies of those who fall before them and, with fell creativity, fashion them into shapes noisome and new
Corpse Collector – a passive ability of the Flesh Smith class that provides a sort of resource system for her to utilize with her other abilities. Through touch, she can absorb corpses into herself, breaking down the biomass into a raw state that can be used in a number of different ways. Most often it is stored within herself, increasing her density and therefore her defense with each cadaver consumed. Biomass can be used to more drastically alter her physical form, be it in shapeshifting or in growing things like massive tentacles to attack with, or expunged for forging by The Flesh that Hates. In the new world, its uses are practically limitless. Necrophages are among the first creatures that many adventurers encounter: miserable and mindless beasts that prowl graveyards and battlefields in search of their next meal. Loath would many adventurers be to find out how many end their careers against aberrations that consume corpses for altogether different purposes
How a normal human would view me: a normal human in the new world would view Lenore as a hideous abomination, instinctively driven to attack her or to flee. The sight of her alone awakens primal reflexes in any man, woman, or child that sees her

Behind the Avatar
Name: Rhona Butler
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Bio: Originally from Ireland, Rhona hasn't had the most active or notable life. If anything, she was so average it was almost funny. She worked a simple desk job as IT support for some phone company or something. She always had a habit of writing and was often how she spent most of her free time. She never really thought of games all that much, if anything she thought they simply were a waste of time. It wasn't until a friend of hers brought her YGGDRASIL did she consider buying it.

She was, in one word, immediately hooked. For someone who liked writing, she quickly got into the RPing scene. She was a casual player at most, but when it came to hardcore role playing and taking the game seriously, she was one of them. She was in fact, one of the founding members of the guild "Phantasmal Forest", a guild strictly for those in the game who at least looked somewhat Fae like, considering her love of them. The guild wasn't exactly the most well known, but they had their moments and were able to at least maintain their own guild. So she continued like this for a number of years.

When the announcement that the servers were shutting down though, she was only one of the few left in her guild. The rest for the most part, had already flown the coop so to speak.

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The Avatar
Name: Tea-Tania
Appearance:
Standing at just 4'7, one could easily mistake Tea, or Tania, for a child if they aren't wise to who exactly she is. She has slightly tanned skin, with an overall dainty and immaculately beautiful appearance. She has two insect like wings sprouting from her back, and a head full of brown hair. She has pointed, elfin ears and chocolate colored eyes.

Race: Demihuman, Fae
Gender: Female
Character Level: 100
Alignment: 200 (Neutral-good. Somewhat mischievous, but good natured.)
Racial Class:
- Fey Queen Lvl 5
- Pixie lvl 15
- Fey Sorceress lvl 10
- etc lvl 10

Job Class:
- Natures Advent lvl 5
- Elementalist, Air lvl 10
- Phantasmal Lord lvl 5
- Etc lvl 40

Fighting Style:
Long range tactics, designed to confuse and throw off the enemy with a mix of illusions, wind based magic, and ensnaring them with the forest itself. She is a veritable whirlwind upon the battlefield, able to flit between places easily and use her superior speed to avoid all damage.

As a Fey queen, any fairy type being is inherently swayed from fighting her. Even other humans find her words to be enthralling and nearly unable to be ignored. She seems to carry an enthralling presence similar to that of a succubus, though much less harmful to humans. The Fey Queen class, was only attained by a select few players that had as of yet class ranked into anything else - meaning one had to start on the path fairly early in their lives in YGGSADRIL. The class boasts some of the highest magical defense and offensive abilities in the game. As Fey sorceress, that effect is boosted even further. She has a high affinity for magic of all kinds and boasts impressive magical defensive abilities.

By far, her most dangerous class however, is the 'Phantasmal Lord'. A class solely dedicated to illusions and confusing the foe. She can create entire areas and fake locations if she has need of it. She can affect a persons sense of taste, smell, sight, sound - the five senses are hers to toy with. She can create a number of illusory copies of herself, and even completely make herself invisible. She can create fake creatures to fight, which all parties involved will imagine to be real - wounds and all.

Outside of her illusory abilities however, she is fairly adept with wind based magics, as well as commanding plants and the forests themselves to fight for her.

Strengths:
The obvious strength would be her speed and agility, and the sheer amount of magical affinity she has. Not to mention being able to fly and command the wind, effectively making it so that other flying creatures will be fairly unable to reach her should she ascend unless they overpower her.

She likes to think she's a bit of a strategic and tactical mastermind, but that may be further from the truth than she likes...

Weaknesses:
Physical stats, are not her strong suit. She can't really take a hit that well. A complete lack of defense, really. Weak as a paper plate, physically speaking which is why she built all of her abilities and tactics to mostly fight with confusion and to confound foes from a distance.

Equipment/Abilities Worthy of Note:

Abilities:

-Blessing of the Fae Queen: A unique ability to those given the 'Fae Queen' class. This ability gives one either a temporary or permanent status as 'Ally to the Fae'. Those that receive this blessing will enjoy a lighter body, essentially increasing their agility as well as stamina.

- Wind Step: An ability that effectively allows ones own body to meld with the wind. As such, they can move quickly around the battlefield and effectively avoid most incoming damage near instantly. They can however, only move around three meters. It is difficult to track the wind, is it not?

- Illusory Double: She is able to create absolutely perfect copies of herself, up to five in fact. They are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. Infused with her massive amounts of mana, They can touch, interact, and otherwise will be perceived by all except the strongest mages to be 100% real. The downside is, they are rather flimsy and will pretty much die in one hit. The illusions do not have any of her magical abilities, but a weak copy of the Starlit Blade is carried with them for attacking and defense, as little damage as they will do.

- Fae Form: She is effectively, able to shrink to the size of a human hand...and maintain all of her magical abilities while doing so. It gives her a massive leg up over melee users unless they have incredibly acute senses and reflexes. She can maintain this form seemingly indefinitely, as it costs very little mana to maintain.

- Natures Advent: Calling upon her power as the fey queen, nature itself seems to obey her. She can, effectively accelerate the growth of plants...and even give plants temporary sentience and life - effectively making them fight for her. The entire forest can and will fight their very enemies should she have need of it.

- Phantasmal Forest of the Fae: Her most powerful ability. She is able to envelop an entire location in an illusory phantasm. Once drawn in, no one will be able to escape. They will wander endlessly through the illusion until they die, decide to leave, or simply give up. Within this illusory space, the illusions she creates will seem entirely real to the victim. Strange creatures will constantly hound those caught, if they are foes.

Those that are sufficiently powerful may be able to realize the entire thing is an illusion, but even so - unless they can make their way to her or have some way to forcefully break the illusion then they will continue to wonder.

Equipment:
-Starlit blade A thin and elegant blade reserved to be used by magic classes. The blue and silver blade is cool to the touch, and is almost impossibly light. It has natural armor penetration, of up to 50% and is able to act as a conduit for magic. It was attained from a rare quest where one could find a meteorite that fell from the heavens and forge a weapon from it. The shiny metal seems to still gleam with starlight.

- Greatwood's Vestments. Supposedly, made from the leaves and bark of an ancient, great tree within a primordial forest. The light, smooth garments were obtained in a quest where one had to kill a curse possessed greatwood. The vestments grants the wearer an affinity for nature magics, boosting them and their control. It gives one high natural poison resistance and is fairly decent protection against magic.

How a normal human would view me:
Most wouldn't be able to see her at all. She likes going around invisible to most people and playing pranks on them. Those who would view her though, would find her to be fairly inhuman. Small, childlike stature and insect like wings sprout from her back marking her as clearly inhuman.

NPC Characters
Name: Alena Gilios
Appearance: Typically, Lena can be found wearing her silver armor and holding onto Fury and Mercy. They were crafted for her, after all in a bit of an RPing sense even if as an NPC she couldn't fully appreciate it until things changed. She has short blond hair, standing at a fairly tall 5'9. She is often mistaken for a male due to her armor, though she was programmed not to really mind.

Yggdrasil/New World: Yggdrasil
Race: Heteromorphic - Dullahan, Elf.
Gender: Female
Character Level: 100]
Alignment: 400, extremely good. Will never do evil deeds knowingly.
Racial Class:
- Dullahan lvl 10
- Blessed Undead lvl 5
- Undead Knight lvl 15

Job Class:
Main:
- Emissary of the Fae lvl 5
- Legendary Aegis lvl 5
- Guardian lvl 10
- Sentinel lvl 10
- Undead Cleric lvl 15
- Misc lvl 25

Fighting Style:
To put simply, Lena was built around impossibly heavy defense. Essentially, she could be described as a walking fortress built solely for defense and the protection of others, with an ability to heal allies. She can give defense buffs to her allies, heal them and otherwise take an extremely heavy amount of punishment. She fights defensively, looking for opening in a foes defense before striking or using one of her stronger skills to deal with the foe.

One might find this a bit contradictory in her skills, considering she is an undead. This would normally be true, if it wasn't for her 'Blessed Undead' status. This status essentially means Lena was blessed by some god or other suitably powerful entity within the game. While it is impossibly to fully restore an undead to life, one can at least give those undead who wish to help others and try a boon to help. Essentially, in effect she is no longer marked as 'undead' by most spells or other abilities save for retaining personal beneficial racial traits and stats, as well as the negative ones, such as a weakness to fire or higher level physical damage nullification.

The 'Emissary of the Fae' status, essentially means she is a friend of any fae or any fairy type creature and can speak with any spirits. While she is a heavily armored knight, the job class actually grants a fairly decent boost to both evasion and speed, as well as fatigue and stamina. An emissary may not be stopped upon their path, and if they have a message of any sort they will deliver it. It is obtained by those who complete a number of quests in the game for the very rare Fey-type creatures.

As a Legendary Aegis, Lena gains impressive defensive abilities and buffs for herself and allies, which is amplified even further by her Sentinel and Guardian classes which offer own unique bonuses to help with her defensive abilities.

As an Undead Cleric, a class unique to blessed undead, Lena has access to basic as well as some higher level healing abilities and buffs.

Strengths:
Alena excels in self buffs for her allies, playing defensively as well as healing them and keeping them going no matter what manner of injuries affect her allies. She can draw foes attention to herself, as a veritable walking bastion of defense and health for her allies and survive greats amount of punishment. She can hit just as hard as most tanks, if not harder thanks to heavy focus on physical stats while neglecting magical stats.

Weaknesses:
Unfortunately, her attack accuracy is lacking. She was built to simply outlast all others and to buff her allies. While she can hit rather hard thanks to her impressive physical strength, she has to play smart and tactfully, especially when dealing with faster opponents. While the Emissary class buffs her agility and stamina, she's not the most agile so most can easily outmaneuver her.

Additionally, she has almost nothing in terms of ranged offensive power. If faced with a mage or archer, turtling behind a shield while advancing forward is the best she can hope for.

Equipment/Abilities Worthy of Note:
Abilities:

- Idomitable resolve: Essentially, whilst standing still or turtling behind a shield the Aegis is able to effectively remain standing no matter what is tossed at them.

- Lifes Aegis: The ability effectively cuts all damage incoming to her and her allies, by half. It lasts for roughly two minutes. Must remain still whilst using it.

- Sorcery Bulwark: As with the Aegis, this effectively cuts incoming magic damage even further. Also lasts roughly for two minutes. Must remain still whilst using it.

- Protection of Faith: Effectively, the ability gives her and her allies the ability to ignore one debuff that will is attempted to be afflicted upon them. Must remain still while using it.

- Focused Mind: A buff that makes her and her allies resistant to all mental effects such as fear or other attempts at controlling them. Must stand still to use.

- Cursed Wellspring of Life: The undead Cleric is able to heal allies, but this is likely her most prominent ability. As an undead, she can use healing, but at the same time it is possible for her to use her undead nature to...change, healing slightly. This is a fountain of life that heals those marked as allies for a certain amount of HP per second. However, those that are not marked as allies will suffer debuffs and a movement penalty.

- Blessing of continued fighting: Once, when HP hits zero she is able to revive herself at 30% health. The Legednary Aegis will not fall, even in death. After doing so, any buffs are lost, but so will any debuffs.

Equipment:
-Fairy Queen's Fury A large sword that was forged alongside its counterpart, Queens Mercy. The blade is your fairly standard holy sword. It is a guild class item that Lena was given for use by the guild. The blade itself is incredibly powerful and sports some fairly powerful functions. Once it was a symbol of the guilds power, along with the shield. Most however, would mistake it for a rather mundane sword in their hands.

However, when wielded by one marked with a title of 'Fae' in either their racial name or job class, the true power of the blade is revealed. It is a powerful item that grants those that wield it a massive boost to their stats - specifically their health and attack power capabilities. The sword has natural armor penetrating power, ignoring a whopping 75% of a foes armor.

-Fairy Queen's Mercy Forged alongside the Queens Fury, this large shield would require a fair feat of strength to use. 'Tower shield' is an apt name for it. For most, it would just be a very heavy hunk of metal that could stop a charging elephant in its tracks.

When used similarly by one of the same titles as Fury, however, its abilities similarly shine. As much as Fury, it is a weapon to be used in battle. In their hands, the shield is almost weightless. The Shield has the ability to nullify any damage that hits it - be it physical or magical. It is even capable of absorbing incoming magic from a threshold and unleashing it as an attack when slammed against something. For example, if it absorbs fire magic it can expel an explosive blast if something is bashed with it. It can also temporarily infuse Fury with the absorbed element for a variety of effects.

Mercy is a bit of a misnomer honestly. Its just an effective weapon as Fury, if not even more dangerous.

-Silver Knights Armor - A silver, if somewhat plain armor that can only be worn and obtained by those of good moral alignment. It is obtained in a rather lengthy and somewhat obscure method mundane sounding quest where one had to track the spirit of a cursed paladin of some god and put him to rest. However, most didn't realize that once you completed the quest you could find his actual body and the armor with a bit of clever reasoning and leg work.

The armor itself acts as heavy armor, nullifying a good portion of physical damage, as well as protecting one against darker magics such as necromancy, blood magic, etc.

How a normal human would view me:



Most humans, would actually find nothing wrong with her despite her undead status. If anything, they would find the dullahan incredibly amicable and trusting. Most wouldn't even be wise that she is an undead, and most magical means of detection would identify her as simply 'Blessed'. Only those of the same level or incredibly powerful beings would identify her as an undead, unless she revealed it herself.

Bio/Lore:
Lena was created by Tea, to be the right hand NPC of her guild, 'Phantasmal Forest'. To put simply, Tea may have gone slightly overboard with both the Lore and history for this particular NPC. She loved writing after all, and may have almost written an entire novel length story for the NPC.

To start with, Lena is described as a young, naive, warrior who has a strong sense of justice but at times, has trouble making the right decisions. She is hesitant to ever use force in a situation unless someone is clearly going to get hurt. She gets along with most people - and has the naive belief that everyone is good at heart. She is an excellent cook, and loves training and pursuing her physical abilities. She can be somewhat serious, but is for the most part good natured and likes people, and talking to them.

is the queens unofficial 'babysitter'

As for the short version of her 'lore' and history -

Once, she was a simply elf that had decided to follow the path of a warrior to protect her home. Unfortunately, a necromancer got their hands on her. For some time, she was a simple zombie, unable to do anything other than follow the necromancers commands. After sometime though, the necromancer was slain and she was left alone. After sometime, the zombie started to regain its mental faculties, if even a little. After regaining her entire mental faculties, she still had a desire to protect those she could, but as an undead it was quite difficult to gain others trust, so she underwent a quest to gain the favor of some holy god. She inevitably succeeded.

Sometime later, she found herself in the employ of the Queen of Fae, the guild 'Phantasmal Forest'.