Alias: Drea
Race: Tiefling
Age: 32
Continent of Birth: Kratos, Babel, High Mist
Height: 6’5
Weight: 166lbs
Bubbly ● Courageous ● Proud ● Intuitive ● Intelligent
Despite her heritage and the disgust often expressed by others due to it, Andrea actually has a rather bubbly and kind personality. Though, all her kindness seems to disappear when she is contracted to hunt down a mage, seemingly becoming another person. Her skills and professionalism as a hunter is something she takes great pride and she will go whatever distance is needed in order to stay true to her contract. Not even a bear can stop Andrea from tracking down a mage, though she’d be more than willing to take on a whole den of bears to make sure they don’t escape.
However, one should not take her courage as blind stupidity, she is in fact rather smart and knows full well of her limits as a Hunter. It is rare for Andrea to take any contract she feels is beyond her limits, even if it means disappointing a noble or being exiled. She is no fool as to risk her life and livelihood for coin, even if it means she must ration her food or even hunt for her food.
Fears:-Failing a Contract
-Losing her family
-The Dread God
-Being Helpless
Starter Equipment:-An Iron cuirass padded with leather so as to make it more silent
-Hard, leather boots that are well worn and often covered in dirt
-A oak bow with iron finishes
-A leather quiver capable of holding 40 arrows
-40 Arrows with heads of steel heads
-An iron arming sword for close combat
-Her clothing consisting of three sets of brown trousers, three light green shirts, and a green cloak
Strengths:- On the Move- Andrea is a strong archer, perhaps stronger than most other hunters, but that means nothing if one cannot hit a moving target or aim while moving. Much of Andrea’s combat skill are dedicated to her training to hit a target which is moving and to stay on the move. Essentially, she focuses on reducing her foe’s ability to hit her and training to hit them. It is safe to say that her multitude of completed contracts of proof of her skill in this art. Though, it has come at a cost as she is not much of fighter when it comes to using a sword.
- Follow the Scent- Tracking a beast is very different from tracking a person with a bounty, the biggest difference being that one is far more capable at hiding their tracks than the other. However, Andrea’s time in apprenticeship to her Father was not wasted on hunting animals. No, she was taught the signs of people and animals alike passing through an area, how the branches break when a person is running through a forest, where they’ll try to hide. It is hard to hide from a foe who hunts people on the regular.
- Silence is Key- People and Animals startle easy, especially when on edge, and the slightest sound could ruin a surprise attack. However, Andrea has managed to master moving silently even in a dense forest so as to get the drop on her target. Of course, this skill is incredibly useful when hunting people as even a single shot can mean the difference between life or death for a Hunter.
Weaknesses:- Bargain?- Andrea is smart however she lacks the charisma to bargain down a merchant or an employer. As such, it is not rare to see her take deals that are rather inclined towards the merchant and often over pays for cheap items.
- Stay Away!- There is not an ounce of cowardice in Andrea’s veins but she is heavily specialized in her combat style, so much so that she is rather lacking anywhere else. Much of her sword fighting skills are simply focused on swinging with the intent to keep the foe away or drive them off, mostly just trying to give her time to knock an arrow.
- Drink Your Fill- It is safe to say that Andrea does not handle her alcohol well. In fact, she is a lightweight for a woman of such size and it often only takes a few mugs to get her right drunk. It isn’t rare for her to drink so much that she passes out or causes trouble. Luckily, she’s learned how to control herself as she got older and rarely drinks nowadays. Well, if rarely was classified as once a week.
Class: Mage Hunter (Ranger)
Few things are known about the Pelas family, fewer even can recall if there has ever been a Pelas who has not taken up the mantle of Mage Hunter. Perhaps it was by chance that Andrea became the only child of her Father and Mother and she was faced with the destiny that all the patriarchs before her had. From a young age, Andrea had been told that she would be taking over the family business, though she did not learn what that was until she was ten. That was when the true training began, when her Father told her that they would be exercising together every morning.
Though young Andrea grew ever more distant from her childhood friends, she did not resent the physical work that she had with her Father. It was a way for them to bond, a way for her to learn more about the man who was ever so rarely home. It was through her years of physical training, learning to use a bow and the basics of sword fighting, that Andrea came to learn the truth of the family business. They were Mage Hunters, had been since the time of their ancestors, but the job was not glorious. There was no glory in hunting down mages, or hunting down regular bounties when there is not a contract. Even her Father reminded her that glory only exists for knights in fantasies, knights who slay dragons and rescue princess. Glory doesn’t exist for the man who must kill one of his kind to make coin.
But there was still pride that both he and Andrea possessed, a belief that a job does not have to be glorious so long as it keeps others safe. And so, her Father pushed her further every day, pushed her to improve his shots and move with less noise. Andrea spent over a decade training with her Father before the mantle of Mage Hunter was passed on to her. From then on, she was the Head of the Pelas family, small and dwindling though it may be. Most of her contracts were simple, a mage has gone rogue and killed another person, it is her job to hunt them down and kill them. Though, in reality, the actual process would often take weeks, at first, due to Andrea’s inexperience in actually tracking people but her skill developed slowly over time.
It wasn’t until she was thirty years old that her Father finally told her that she had become a great Mage Hunter, though nowhere near a legend like her ancestors. However, life would prove to be difficult for her in Babel. There were fewer mages to hunt as the years went by, fewer contracts which paid enough for her to live off of for more than a week. It was this that led her to leave Babel before her thirty-first birthday for Carthus, though the land was less than welcoming to her kind. It was in Carthus that Andrea found more plentiful contracts to take, more people to hunt, and her livelihood grew once more.
