Name: Leyann
Age: 17
Appearance: (pic in below hider)
Personality: Leyann is someone for whom work and hard work especially are not alien concepts, but rather more akin to close friends than anything else. She is someone who will โbite the bulletโ to push down her own pain or tiredness to assist others, a fierce determination to โget things doneโ pushing her to greater heights in what she does but also at times pushing her to greater hurt to herself. One could call her a tomboy as well, due to her work habits and gung--ho attitude to get her hands dirty, and to her own admission she is more alien to the concept of a โsoft, pretty lady who sits about dolled upโ than anything else.
This being said, underneath the โresponsible elder sisterโ side and โhard workerโ she is...something else as well. A tired child who is curious about the past, a hopeful girl who looks to the future and t\he stars with wonder, a selfless woman who seeks the best, and yet someone who has for a long time not had much help in lightening her load. The weight of it all has been a pressure on her, and she does bottle things up to an extent to keep a smiling face in front of others. Especially when she is pushing herself too much, she can even be stubborn about things unless forced or pressured to take more care of herself.
Background: The daughter of a skilled smith and his wife, and the second oldest of five children, Leyann had much responsibility hefted onto her from a young age. As her older brother was in the kingโs military, he wasnโt at home all the time, yet ultimately ended uip abandoning his family after a spat with his father some years ago. This left Leyann to take on multiple roles as her fatherโs work increased due to his praised skills and her mother became more busy caring for her younger siblings in her growing household. At times she might assist in the care of her siblings, others she was with her father in the forge and learning his craft as his oldest remaining child, and at others helping gather food supplies and hunting or foraging as her mother neatened up the house. It was a multi-purposed role that became necessary to keep her family running, and one that she embraced out of necessity.
...It was also an exhausting role, one that left her sometimes looking for ways to cope. Sitting in the tallest tree near the village to watch the stars at night became one of her personal pastimes, when able, but what truly caught her eye was an eccentric older man in her village named Toum. In his home were etched stones, shelves of parchment, and ancient โpaperโ and such vessels of words that bore upon them ancient stories and learnings and even old tales once only passed down by word of mouth. Whilst the local nobles seemed to make use of his library and came there at times, even agreeing to place guards to ensure its safety, the use by locals in her village was not much. However, Leyann began to talk to the old man and became curious about his collection.
Conversation eventually turned to a desire to โlearnโ, to grasp at the knowledge of the past somehow. She would come to work for the old man, helping care for and organize his tomes and information in return for learning how to read. Reading would eventually give way to discovering an old English textbook hidden among the older areas of the library, and a curiosity-filled and self-driven desire to learn this โancient tongueโ on her part. From here even a math textbook or two would come to arise, and when she wasnโt busy helping family one could ultimately find Leyann hidden away in the old manโs library reading and trying to learn.
Eventually, however, the fall of a great star from the sky and the call to assemble โgifted youthโ to venture out and investigate reached her ears and village. When she volunteered to go, however, there was more on her mind than simply taking her test of courage to become an adult. It was a chance also for her to get out into the outside world, to get out and maybe see some of the ruins left behind by the โBuildersโ along the way. All she knew was...something in her cried out: โI have to see it all with my own two eyes!โ. As such, she never looked back...simply promising her family she would return alive and as an adult.
Skills:-
Literacy: A skill gleaned from years of talking and learning with the old man and his collection of tomes. A rather unorthodox skill for a commoner to possess, and yet one that she possesses all the same. She can read and write in โancientโ English, though to some limited extent has some very rough semblance of โspeakingโ it as compared to the normal tongue of her people. She also has mathematical or scientific knowledge gleaned from scant old textbooks or passed on knowledge recorded there by past nobles who were patrons of the library, and some general knowledge of legends and tales and such things.
A very rare and generally not-useful thing for someone focused on a life of survival and craft learning, but a skill sheโs fostered for herself and invested weightily into all the same.
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Smithing: She is a capable enough smith who can work metal, knows how to build and use a proper forge, and is capable of making use of raw materials and scavenged metal scraps to do her work. A solid crafts-related skill that can be handy in the field given enough time to make use of it.
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Spear Combat: A skill mostly practical in nature due to her going hunting with one to help her family, though she had learned some ways to practice and use one from her military-trained older brother before he finally abandoned their family for good. She has put those things learned from her older brother to heart and her practice, both to remember him and become a stronger and better hunter.
Gear: -
Steel Spear:
A deadly sharp metal spear suitable for combat and hunting larger game, forged with the guidance of her father by her own two hands. -
Light Armor: A pair of light metal shoulder pauldrons, a pair of lighter thigh-protecting metal greaves, and a pair of boots with metal-toe protection (roughly based on steel toed boots) and a piece of light metal on the back of the ankle of the boot to protect the back of the heel.
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Traveling Cloak: Thicker trench coat with an added hood, but styled more to be simply secure to the body for long journeys. Great thing to wear against the elements.
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Travel Pack: Bedroll, cured meats and such preserved rations, water-filled canteen, smithing tools, a knife, and-...oh. An old worn compass? Did she find that at the old manโs library?
Misc.: She met her Eidolon, "Melu", as she was hunting in the woods one day. Melu stalked and observed her throughout her hunt, though at the end seemed to come out of hiding to see her more closely. Despite initially hesitant of the odd creature, however, the diminutive creature seemed to regard her curiously more than anything. Ultimately she offered Melu some meat from a prior kill in her hunting bag...and the little creature happily accepted the gift with eager haste. Safe to say, her family were more than surprised to see Melu at first until she proved well able to take care of pests and in one instance a pesky thief with a seeming death-wish.
However, the old man Leyann helped took a shine to Melu on first sight. Kept calling her 'Lady Edelgard' and letting her climb about and read as well as Leyann did her own reading and such. On occasion, the female Eidolon would curl up with Leyann and read silently with her as well.
Name: Melu
Appearance: An Eidolon the size of a small child, yet whose body appears like a haunting forest spirit that wanders the wilds. More so, she bears resemblance to the ancient human tradition of the "Wild Hunt" in some capacity.
Abilities:
-Miniature Manifestation: Melu can manifest similarly ethereal-looking creatures, shaped after a wide variety of animals (including wolves and horses and deer). Of course they are all her size at largest, ultimately, and she can even ride on them to boot due to her own size. They can at least be useful in maybe hunting pests, killing smaller creatures, and wielded in enough numbers can even be used in fighting larger creatures or larger tasks.
Of course if Melu is knocked out, she can't sustain these creatures of hers and they disappear once more.
-Speaker of Tongues: Melu is odd in that she...is frankly capable of speaking and reading in the various tongues of humankind. Perhaps more, if those creatures that came from space had or have any sort of 'language' or similar concept to it.
-Weather Manipulation: While not capable of grand feats like manipulating the weather in the skies above, she can generate smaller 'weather' about herself. Human-sized that produce lightning and come with strong winds, a cloud formed to let loose a rain shower to wash off an unlucky ally, or even a concentrated little area of fog that can be formed. Even creating a little 'dry space' about her and her master/allies to protect them from a heavy rain would be generally speaking possible for her.
Imagine these as small little localized things, something she could tire herself out with in a hurry for sure by just spamming it, but even so can be useful in their own way.
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