Name: Hex Gredus
Aliases: None
Titles: Demon Slayer, Druid in Training
Age: 19
Place of Origin: Ruen-Vay
Kingdom: None the Ruen Vay is a dense forest ruled by no one.
Gender: Female
Time of Death: 50 years ago


Eye: Forest Green
Hair: Mint Green
Day To Day Attire: Leather pauldron on her right arm, a grey tunic that goes down to her femur, a magic horned helmet thats only magical property is that the eye on the front emotes, and a drum that is used as a sheath for her two sickles.
Strengths: She's very agile and agressive in combat, she's very strong willed and can survive on very little resources
Weaknesses: She's not very subtle or charismatic, she has a difficult time dealing with people and activities she deems degenerative. She's also not very good at healing from injuries.

Trait * Low Self Esteem * Antisocial * Impatient

Sexuality: Bisexual, but you'll never get her to admit she has any sexuality.
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Hex is someone who tries really hard to be reserved, but she has a lot of trouble hiding things like contempt and embarrassment but she's gotten incredibly good at hiding things like happiness and sadness though. All this emotional repression has both made her an amazingly aggressive fighter but also incredibly unable to deal with her emotions or regretful memories, even small social mishaps can send her into hysterics.

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Nature magic: Apprentice (1)

Melee Fighting: master (4) From the ages 12-16, when she lived in the druid monastery, she wasn't very good with nature magic and desperately wanted to be useful to the druids she took up fighting. The druids education plan was based on thoroughly indulging yourself in your vocation, spending every waking hour you could harnessing your ability, so naturally, with it being her only real use to the druids, she got really into fighting.

Intimidation: Master (4) She has unintentionally tuned herself for aggression since she was little, between her life in the gypsy caravan, her time training with the druids and the years she spent in the harsh wilderness, the circumstances she was raised under makes it both hard to turn her aggression off and but makes it easy for her to flip the switch back when she needs to.

Ranged Fighting: Journeyman (2) She figured hunting was a very important part of hunting and something she should probably get good at but her arms aren't strong enough for it and sitting and aiming isn't exactly easy to do when you go into a blind rage everytime you have to fight something.

Stealth: Expert (3) She hunts a lot so she has a pretty good idea of how to stalk prey but her hunting style depends on her being intimidating and brutal so she doesn't retain her stealth for very long usually.

Perception: Grand Master (5) She can't read social cues very well, so she tries really hard to be as observant as possible she's good at retaining and recognizing information but isn't super great at inferring meaning from it. That combined with living in the woods and hunting demons has made her incredibly paranoid.

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Myth / Legend:
Hex lived in a caravan full of demonic gypsies (think tieflings). As she spent her time travelling from place to place she learned to appreciate nature as it provided a respite from her life in the caravan. The gypsies eventually set up outside a monastery of human druids. The members of the monastery shut their doors as soon as they saw the group arrive. The druids did however send out small parties of people to greet and communicate with the group, one of which was a druid named Jinae who started a friendship with Hex with their mutual love of nature being the catalyst. He started visiting Hex pretty regularly and she was always happy to see him because he always had new things to show her and new subjects to teach. Eventually as she entered puberty, she began to develop feelings for him.

The caravan eventually decided to move on and Hex confronted her family saying that she was leaving to live with the druids. This escalated into a fiery argument that ended in Hex burning every single bridge she had with her family. She went up to the monastery where her membership was met with cautiousness considering what she was. Jinae vouched for her however and she started her training as a druid.

The druid way of living is very conservative, and the system of morality is simple, with sinfulness not only being a definable thing but a calculable numerical unit. They believe everyone is born with a certain amount of sinfulness with humans being naturally good and demons being naturally evil. You can effect this depending on what you do in your life but things like your race are incredibly significant. The initial demon score is so low that generally they don’t allow demons to join because the most holy of demons never have a positive score. Jinae allowed her in though because he thought the number was wrong and that a demon who strictly followed the druid code could have a score high enough to gain druid powers.

Much to the dismay of everyone the druidry lessons weren’t working. Jinae made the assumption that it was because she was just too sinful and nature just refused to connect with her. He started attempting methods to make her pure, after a while it was obvious that his attempts weren’t going anywhere. His attempts to make Hex not demonic became more desperate and dangerous using techniques like bleaching her skin and having her bathe in holy water using her obvious love for him as a motivator to go along with his more drastic attempts.
With time the experiments eventually stopped. At the end of it Hex finally got the courage to tell Jinae that she loved him. Both disgusted with what she was turned into and that she will always be a demon, he told her that he could never love something so impure.

Hex slowly got angrier and more into fighting so she could still be useful to the druids despite her terrible connection to nature as well as attempt to help her get over her feelings of insecurity and self-hatred towards the fact that she was a demon. The druids started slowly becoming afraid of how quiet she got and how aggressive she started to become. Out of fear of what this demon could do to them or was possibly planning she was asked to leave. She complied, she left without a fight. She ran off into the woods in an attempt to find a way to make herself pure, so she can come back and continue her studies as a druid and win Jinae’s heart. Taking a drum, some sickles, a helmet to help her control her demonic traits and some of Jinae’s clothes to smell. She then went traveling from town to town finding demons to kill.

Parents: Limara and Tibar were the ones that raised her, but it's questionable if Tibar is actually her father or not.
Siblings:She has 8 but had no real connection with any of them
Childhood:Hex was born to a group of
gypsies. Her life inside of the caravan was difficult. With resources constantly low, competition for things like toys and proper food servings only belonged to the most aggressive children. However it's not like Hex wasn't an aggressive child, but Hex was small and as a result of her malnourishment still is.
Adulthood: She's spent her entire adult life in the wilderness, slowly becoming more feral and letting her emotions stew, with her only real therapeutic thing in her life being killing demons and whatever poor forest creature crosses her path when she's hungry.
Special Moments: The time she met a prostitute and fell in love with her. The moment she realized this was when she heard her having sex with someone through a door, she doesn't normally do well around sexual things but this tore at her for weeks. She tries not to think about it a lot but when she does she goes into long episodes of despair. Her desire for her and her oath to stay pure was difficult to reconcile, ultimately ending with lashing out at her and ruining any chance of a relationship they could've had.
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Aura Color:Red
Scent:Sweat and Dirt
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Name: Lei Shoubo
Aliases: Lei Baifeng (White Phoenix), The Prodigy
Titles: Heir to the Lei Wu School, second generation student of the infamous Beggar Kuo
Age: 19
Place of Origin: Southern province of Zhoudong
Kingdom: Taisong
Gender: Male
Time of Death: 0


Eyes: Lively, aquiline hazel
Hair: Jet black and quite long, neatly styled up into a ponytail with a few loose strands.
Physical traits:
Lei stands at a not particularly impressive six feet sharp and weighs around 185 pounds. At first glance he appears something of a lanky runt, a perception furthered by his long arms and 78 inches of reach making him appear gangly, but he possesses an obviously well trained athletic physique packed with lean and well defined muscle, especially for his age. Though his face is clean and sharp, retaining boyish good looks, his body shows the strenuous life he has led and is covered in a myriad of scars and markings, with his limbs in particular being terribly hardened from relentless conditioning.

Day To Day Attire:
While not ordained himself, Lei dresses in blue and white robes similar to those worn by monks in his homeland and other territories in close proximity, even wearing a set of 12 large prayer beads around his neck. Each bead in Baifeng’s rosary is decorated with a single character that either is evocative of a specific mantra or is a mantra in its own right. Not as common but not unheard of, the martial artist supplements his soft-soled cloth moccasins with near knee-high cloth wraps and wears similar cloth gauntlets and wrappings on his hands and forearms.
Strengths:
Superbly talented and trained martial artist, gifted in body and mind, surprisingly well educated
Weaknesses:
Does not and will not use magic, weapons or armor, supremely self-assured

Energetic * Loyal * Unyielding * Honest (sometimes to a fault) * Combative * Supremely self-assured * Meritocratic * Self-reliant

Sexuality: “Who am I interested in? Well, anyone anyone with strong martial arts obviously, I want to keep getting better”
Relationship Status: “I’ve gone out plenty! Lots of training trips and challenges!”
Personality:
An outgoing and energetic youth, seemingly always in high spirits, Lei Baifeng nonetheless follows the path of warrior of his own choosing and this shapes his interactions with others. Downright obsessed with the martial arts and combat skills, he is tremendously secure in his lofty abilities and somewhat lacking in social graces, making him terribly blunt at times and prone to criticizing the form and skills of others, though he’s also friendly enough and can be easy to get along with if one takes his quirks into account.

And speaking of his quirks, The Prodigy holds himself to exceedingly high standards first and foremost, in excess of what he expects of others. Lei puts deception and treachery beneath him and is extremely driven to prove himself as good as he thinks he is, especially as it would bring honor to his teachers and family. On the one hand this makes him bold, loyal, straightforward and brave, but on the other it can make him adventurous to a fault and at times unnecessarily combative and unwilling to let a slight go.

Finally, he is a firm believer in self growth through hard work and earning one's keep. He thinks little of those gifted their position or power, having earned his through much effort, and similarly expects others to put in the work to help themselves rather than just be fed easy solutions. Having said this, he acknowledges the skill and strength of others when proven and greatly values growth and the necessary conditions for it, meaning he will go out of his way to ensure people can carve their own path in life.

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• Lei Wu Tiger Crane Fist (Grand master): Lei Baifeng is one of the greatest unarmed fighters in the world, having turned his entire body into a deadly weapon capable of contending with armed and armored adversaries. Trained in the combined skills of three martial masters, and well versed in other fighting forms and combat in general, Shoubo employs a versatile, deceptive and highly technical style. Controlling engagements through defense, positioning and timing, with much circular motion and darting in and out of range, in offense he is precise and patient, prodding and slowly breaking opponents apart at a distance until the opportunity for a sudden, focused attack presents itself.
• The Way of Observation (Master): Much of The Prodigy’s success comes from his ability to read opponents and the flow of an engagement. As much a natural aptitude as it is a specifically trained and developed skill, forged through comprehensive understanding of combat dynamics and technique and hours upon hours of study, Shoubo is very hard to catch unawares or out of position.
• Body skills (Master): Intent on training himself to the utmost, Lei has not only engaged in the necessary physical preparation for martial arts training, he has also delved into a great number of avenues for body development and expression. From sprinting and long distance running, to swimming, climbing and even some acrobatics and free running, the most impressive part of Baifeng’s athletic abilities are his near-gravity defying leaps and bounds commonly known in Taisong as the light body skills or qinggong.
• Survival skills (Expert): The life of a wandering martial artist can be quite inhospitable, exposed to the fury of the elements and the dangers of wildlife as one embarks on training voyages or sets out in a new adventure, and thus many masters often learn to thrive in the wilderness. Lei is quick to adapt to the ways of nature even in foreign lands, reliably able to find food, water and shelter, deal with wildlife on some level, endure harsh conditions such as extreme temperatures or altitude and generally get by just fine with nothing but his own two hands.
• Physiotherapy (Expert): A large part of training in the martial arts is ensuring the body does not break down, and it is normal throughout the world for top instructors to be well versed in medicine to ensure this. Though not a healer per se, Baifeng has enough knowledge to help stabilize the wounded, knows medicinal herbs and concoctions and is well versed in anatomy and how to best manipulate it through therapeutic massage and bonesetting.
• Education (Journeyman): Though it’d be easy to take him for a meathead, which is truthfully not an entirely wrong assessment, Lei Shoubo actually received an education on matters not fistic violence from a local temple. While he was not particularly scholarly inclined and never wanted to be a monk himself, he is decently versed in lore, history and other common knowledge subjects, can read and write, speaks a little of a smattering of languages and even knows a little of song and dance for festivals.

Unlike many other heroes, Lei Baifeng employs no magic and carries no items of power, instead possessing the following physical gifts:

• The body a fortress: Lei Shoubo possesses no wondrous magics, no artifacts passed down in myth, only himself as he came into this world and as he will leave it, and this single-minded dedication has borne fruit. Though there definitely are larger, stronger beings as far as pure lifting is concerned, The Prodigy is not easy to overpower on muscle alone, and the rest of his physical parameters are so developed as to allow him to fight evenly with fully equipped adversaries. His entire body is tremendously difficult to damage, eradicates poisons, toxins and disease with absurd ease and he can work his simple physical attributes against sorcerous forces without being brushed aside.
• The mind a temple: The Prodigy has developed a mental acumen to match his physicality, not so much on the intellectual side of things and more predicated on unbreakable willpower and sharp instincts. He has has excellent control over his body’s functions, able to do things such as shut out pain and push himself beyond his reasonable physical limits at times, and attempts at psychic attacks or mental tampering can be about as difficult as trying to fistfight him. He has also trained himself to not rely entirely on his eyesight by focusing on his other senses, and he possesses an outstanding talent for perceiving danger and tracking targets as well as an uncanny sense of direction.

Myth / Legend: Arguably, Lei Baifeng’s legend has yet to truly begin, as he is but a young man born and living in the current day. What this doesn’t take into account is that he a true prodigy of the martial arts, son to highly respected pugilists “Dancing Boulder” Lei Kam Bo and “Wild Princess” Wu Chan Yu, with his father’s teacher and adoptive parent being the infamous master of drunken boxing, rumoured immortal Beggar Kuo Siu-tien. With his pedigree and potential growth, Shoubo is perhaps the most promising prospect the vast martial community in Taisong has seen in many years and a definite legend in the making.

It was for this reason that when the world began to wither and die, Lei went against his family’s wishes and presented himself to the Gathering of Champions at the famed Mount Lo. Knowing the situation of the land was dire the foremost martial figures of Taisong came together with the authorities to arrange for a grand contest, one that would determine worthy heroes to undertake a quest for the sake of all living things. Feeling he was still lacking in maturity, Shoubo was forbidden from attending, but the impetuous youth snuck out intent on proving the validity of what he had been taught but most importantly proving himself special.

It didn’t take long for the impulsive, critical and brutally honest youth to make enemies for himself as stringent etiquette went unobserved and egos ran wild. Certainly, once the heir to the Lei Wu School proved his identity and worth with a victory over famed temple exponent Wong Hark, many were chomping at the bit to challenge him seeking fame, recognition and the downfall of a potentially troublesome rival. Letting his arrogance get the better of him, the so called Prodigy personally challenged the five favorites to win the contest, betting his life on his ability to best all of them one after the other.

The battles were hard fought and increasingly grueling. The chosen five were famed warriors skilled in the use of various weapons and curious fighting skills, but Lei Baifeng would not be denied and his beautiful art saw him fell men that in other time might have been legends in their own right. The spectators were wowed by this youth’s skill, poise and courage, and even his rivals came to respect his abilities and the willpower to carry on the fight as his body deteriorated. The Prodigy’s victory seemed clear, but as he was on the cusp of glory it was snatched away, the dream suddenly turning into a nightmare.

His final rival, battered and bloodied and assumed beaten but never declared the loser, gave Baifeng a lesson in cunning. With the battles taking place in a natural location, full of traps for the unsuspecting and the unskilled, the villainous Lu Wei pounced on a moment of weakness from the youth and found it in him to cast Lei down a great waterfall nearby. Those watching panicked first, then accepted fate with sorrow. Surely, with his wounds not even The Prodigy could survive, and Lu Wei had acted well within his right against a challenger who signed for a death match. With a heavy heart, they sought to recover the body for burial.

But once again defying the odds, Lei Shoubo had not passed on to the next life, and as he was rescued and tended to he grasped as firm a hold on life as he ever had. Had he died? Had he not? How long had the fall been, how long had he watched his short life unfold before him? He did not know, but now he knew he had a purpose, a mission to see through. The World had called upon the souls of great heroes and so he would answer...

Parents: Lei Kam Bo and Wu Chan Yu, Kuo Siu-tien is his father's master and adoptive father.
Siblings: None
Childhood:
Shoubo’s life has been as hectic as it comes. Raised by two martial artists to be their successor, and helped along by an ancient drunken master in it as much for his own amusement as for Lei’s benefit, for a fair part of his life his parents chose to avoid exposing him to the greater rigors of their lifestyle, instead leaving him to study and learn the basics of combat in a local temple. Ever since it was reasonable to do so Lei Kam Bo and Wu Chan Yu both personally instructed Baifeng in the intricacies of their styles, taking him on formative training journeys and expecting him to excel, often also saddling him with settling disputes and disagreements between them to boot.
Adulthood:
Ongoing
Special Moments:
Accompanying his parents on their journeys, triumphing in his first fight, his first defeat at the hands of an older, more experienced opponent, earning his lofty reputation.

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Character Quote: “Your skills are not strong enough!”
Theme Song: A song for battle.
Aura Color: “My what?”
Scent: Sweat, blood, aromatic oils and leaves to preserve the body.