Name: Liu Zhao

Age: 16

Origin: Xi'an, China 623 A.D

Appearance:


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Level: 1

Health Points: 25,000

Mana: 800

General Stats:
• Strength - 2500
• Endurance - 2500
• Intelligence - 1600
• Agility - 1000
• Dexterity - 400
• Luck - 1000

Acquired Skills:
• Translator - Level 1 - Translates any new language into the user's mother tongue.
• Charisma - Level 1 - A passive skill which temporarily improves the attitude of people or creatures the user interacts with. It makes it easier to befriend strangers, or persuade others. It has no effect on hostile enemies at this level.
• Mystic Eyes - Level 1 - The user may spend mana to see normally in either total darkness, dense fog, or another adverse condition. It has a passive effect which grants the user improved eyesight (20/10).

Extra
• Kaireth's Blessing: Physical Augmentation - gain additional 2000 points in both Strength and Endurance stats per level

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Short Background:
The whole of China was suffering under the rule of the whimsical and petty tyrant, Emperor Yang of Sui, who forced millions of peasants into back-breaking labor to expand the Great Wall and the Grand Canal leading to Chang'an. Between the two projects, more than six million died, and even more died in the Emperor's campaigns against Korea and Vietnam, despite an overwhelming advantage in numbers.

Her father was conscripted as a soldier and eventually became a military commander, surviving every foolish conflict he had been thrown into. Tough and charismatic, he earned the respect of his men and the support of the people he governed. Instead of rewarding his honorable service to the Empire, the Emperor saw him as a threat and exiled him to the frontier.

Zhao had little choice but to mature quickly as a child. Despite being limited as a woman, her mother convinced local villages to lend supplies and support to her fathers troops all throughout the war, and that left very little time for her to play or indulge her curiosity. In fact, her father was a stranger during most of her childhood, and they were only able to reunite due to his exile.

Zhao was never allowed to remain idle. When she wasn't being groomed for marriage, she learned swordsmanship and strategy from her father and his trusted aides. The frontier was a dangerous place, where bandits and roaming Mongols were common threats. She worked hard to honor her father's wishes, and proved herself to be every bit as sharp-witted and charismatic as her father.

Although she had never been allowed to participate in battle, she helped develop strategies that allow the militia to beat back the invading war bands. And they did this so consistently that her father was eventually able to force the Mongols and other tribes into a peace treaty.

When news of these achievements reached the Emperor, he declared her father a threat to the Empire and ordered that her entire family be arrested and executed. With the Empire descending into shambles, and the countryside degenerating into small, independent warlord bands, her father denounced the Emperor and convinced his men to rebel. They marched toward the capital, fighting and assimilating bandits and other militias into their ranks. On the eve following their first victory against the Imperial army, Zhao was slain. While sitting at the table with her father, an assassin's arrow intended for him, pierced her chest.