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Full Name: Akemi Astri Desdemona

Nickname(s): Kemi, Kem

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Birthday: 21/06

Affiliation: Rising Starborn, the guild mark can be found on her stomach and is a light yellow color

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Personality:
If one were to describe Akemi after meeting her for the first time, words such as cold, calm, or collected would be the first to spring to mind. And from the outside, this very much is the truth. But what is shown on the outside isn't always reflective of what's on the inside; despite popular opinion, Akemi is actually a rather emotionally fragile individual who, despite her best efforts, is simply unable to express herself in what many would deem a conventional manner. While she tries her best to interact with others, her almost unnatural disconnection from others is laughable at best, and absolutely pathetic at worst. While most might be more openly expressive than Akemi about their emotions, Akemi has far more simple and subtle changes in body language, tone, and eyes which generally only those that know the girl are able to pick up on.

Innocent and pure-minded, Akemi has a naive mindset and is a rather gullible and impressionable person with a rather childish view of the world, seeing and believing everything as white or black and ignorant of the gray in between, in part due to her incomplete learning and her sheltered life. Between this and her honest, open nature she tends to sprout nonsense that embarrasses those around her or cause/lead to several misunderstandings. She is of the belief that those with power should always protect those without, and will not hesitate in her convictions to let those that bully those weaker than themselves know this very simple message.

Within Akemi burns a surprisingly hot passion to be of use to those around her, her main belief is that if she can protect others then that is what she should strive to do no matter the cost to herself.

Strengths:
Loyalty is a virtue: As anyone close to her can attest to, if one is to befriend Akemi then they would have a friend for life, through thick and thin, and she is just able willing to do anything to help them.

Justice Always Prevails: The strong should protect the weak, a simple belief that Akemi follows with surprisingly stubbornness. She (almost) never relents on this very simple belief, and so long as she believes Justice is on her side she believes good will always pull through

Forever an Optimist: No matter how bleak a scenario may become, Akemi looks to keep focused on the possibilities of the future rather than the bleakness of the now, believing that there's always a way out so long as they kept fighting for it.

Weaknesses:
Sickly Girl: Despite her vastly improved health, she is still rather inclined to sudden fevers and illnesses, especially if she overuses her magic.

Inexperience Is Costly: Due to her upbringing, Akemi is inexperienced both with reality and fighting, and this very much shows when she struggles to cope with dirty tactics or deceitful or misleading people

Wants To Please: Having grown up neglected by her father, Akemi simply desires praise or acknowledgment from those around her, doing things that might be dangerous if she believes it will be of help.

Backstory:
Akemi grew up never knowing her mother, who died due to complications during childbirth, and was neglected by her father for reasons unknown to even herself, and thus her parents were absent during most of her childhood. As such her upbringing differed from the rest of the families that are descended from the Uru. Owing to the neglect from her father and her own weak constitution when she was younger, she lived a life cut off from the outside world, for the most part, the only time she ventured out was with her grandparents, her education also coming from her elderly relations. The Uru are a tight-knit community, however, so it was only a matter of time before others began butting in when her grandparents inevitably took her in when she was about six years old. Namely, the best friend of her grandfather, who would bring his grandson along to visit the girl whenever he did. The boy's name was Zenith, and despite some particularly awkward first interactions, as the girl was shy and unsure how to act towards the older boy, she eventually warmed up and the two became almost inseparable during gatherings or when he visited her, the younger girl trailing after him like a lost puppy.

She grew up looking up to the older boy, viewing him as the older sibling she never had and something to aspire to become. As time passed and she became of age, her grandparents would inevitably introduce her to the Take Over that their family specialized in, Angel Soul, despite heavy protest from her father. He would eventually relent as it would soon become known that she had already learned the magic; it was hereditary and had awakened within her, thus she would require training to learn how to control her newfound powers. As such she began to spend even more time around Zen, often getting a helping hand from the older boy passing tips onto the girl which she happily accepted. Zen would be her main sparring partner for the next few years, the fact that she never once beat him coming as no surprise. This only spurred her on to try harder, which in turn would cause her frail health to decline rapidly at times.

Despite missing often significant time due to illness, the girl proceeded to make steady progress on both her studies and her magic, though she had a noticeable drop in performance when Zen first left to join the knights. Though the dip didn't last long as she aspired to join the knights much like their own families had done and achieve her desire to protect the weak. She is still unaware of what transpired with Zen, her grandparents keeping her in the dark purposely to avoid the long, awkward explanation they would have to give. Besides, it wasn't their place to explain it but Zen's, and when she inquired him about it she keeps getting a 'when you're older' sort of response.

When Zen decided it was in his best interest to leave the country and see if other countries had better to offer, her grandparents asked him to take her with them despite her father's protests and objections to the matter. When the subject was brought up with Akemi, she gladly took the chance to go with Zen though a little hesitant at first. Not because of her father and how he might think, or because of her lack of experience with the outside world, no she was first and foremost worried about being a burden by becoming ill and having to have Zen look after her. Though with assurances that she wouldn't be a burden even if that did happen, that was all they wrote on the topic before she packed a few things and left with her brother figure.

That isn't to say their journey was without hiccups. A few bandit issues here, a squabble with some petty knights there, Akemi getting lost in a city, you know all that fun stuff. Eventually, they would reach Pergrande with little issues, or at least nothing major. Once there, they stumbled upon rumors of guilds, traditional guilds, attempting to start up in the country and this peaked both the mages interest. Especially when they heard of one such guild known as Rising Starborn, and the potential of a mage within who can help Akemi with her condition.



A form of Take Over magic passed down within a certain sect of the Uru tribe, and can only be utilized by this same sect due to their bloodline being blessed by the Archangel Uriel, their abilities mostly centering around this Angel in particular though they are capable of learning others if the chance to acquire them arises, whether thats through more traditional take over methods, being blessed in the same vein as Uriel or however. Unlike other Take Over magics, each form has a number of stages one must clear before they are able to fully master the full powers of an Angel. Uriel has 4 stages, Akemi at her current level has mastered Stage 1 and is in the process of learning stage 2.






Claims to be the younger sister of Zenith Zillard, and while not entirely untrue they are not actually related beyond their ties to the Uru tribe

Age: 18
Birthday: December 25th
Class: A

Personality:
Someone that keeps his secrets close to his chest and does his best to keep others at a distance. Nolan is an abrasive, grumpy, sarcastic young man that is easily irritable and rarely smiles though chances are if he is smiling, he is mocking someone or watching them get their just desserts. In that regard, he is a bit twisted and is not above acts of cruelty and viciousness to get a job done even if lowers peoples' opinion of him. Well, it is not like he cares what people think about him and he is not someone that goes out of his way to form attachments with others though it's not due to some dumb reasons that attachments make him weak. It's a "why bother" sort of mentality. They'll leave him sooner or later.

The few things that he prides himself on is his skills as a warrior and as a scholar of the ancients. Nolan is a naturally curious and studious to the point where some would call it an obsession to obtain power and knowledge. Things such as wealth and status mean absolutely nothing to him; he only thinks of earning enough for what he needs and generally will try to find ways of saving money by just doing things himself, such as growing a vegetable garden or mending his clothes. That and he just doesn't respect people who are born into a position of power without having done anything to earn it or prove that they deserve it.

He is terrible with women as well. Nolan tends to get easily flustered and embarrassed, especially if he becomes their focus and in general, he doesn't really know what to do. This understandably leads to quite a bit of teasing. Lord help if a woman actually even tries to flirt with him.

Despite all of this, he is not heartless. Nolan will save people even at the cost of his own wellbeing for no reward because he cannot ignore someone in trouble, even if that person was a right prick. Well, unless they were really monstrous then he'd just leave them to their fate.

Magic:

Crematory God Slayer-
God slayer magic is an ancient magic in which the caster able to attain the abilities of a "god", using a specific element as their type. A Crematory God Slayer, as the name states, allows to generate and manipulate ashes filled with searing hot embers with the capability of slaying a god. He is able to use it to enhance physical attacks and mold them to create physical objects. To restore magic and rejuvenate themselves, the user devours ash. The magic itself has a variety of uses from pure offense to sheer impenetrable defense. Since ash is already matter that has already been burned, it is a counter against flame-based magic or anything that generates heat at all. It is even an excellent insulator for electricity unless wet. As well as due to the heat from his magic, he does have a resistance to heat.

However, what makes this magic stand apart from even other Slayer magics and ash magic is its connection to the dead. Ashes are used as a vehicle to summon souls of those who have passed though they must be willing, and they will not obtain their original bodies. They will be in an ashy form and do not have the ability to communicate verbally though do have the ability to interact with the physical world and even fight on the user's behalf. Nolan can even summon someone's soul, but that requires an item related to the one being summoned and whether or not they want to be summoned at all. The side-effect of this is that he seems to have an ability to sense spirits.



Equipment:

Holy Symbol Necklace: A holy symbol of the god he is supposed to worship. In Nolan's case, it is a crescent moon made from gold.

Sacred Texts: Whatever texts that survived from the destruction of his monastery, he brought them. They are about several topics mainly about the gods, history, and God Slaying Magic. They are in a language that is long dead.

Journals: Filled with Nolan's thoughts and observations of magic, especially pertaining to God Slayers. Written in the same language as the Sacred Texts.

Smoking Pipe: A habit that he picked up from his teacher, Nolan has a smoking habit. The tobacco that Nolan preferences has a sweet, yet savory smell reminiscent to mesquite and juniper.

Gourd: Contains ashes for when Nolan needs to restore his magic.

Forged Documents: Given that he is supposed to be dead, he goes around with fake identification documents when entering different kingdoms from his time as a merc.

Monk Uniform: Has several of them. They are the only articles of clothes that he actually has.

History:
A young wanderer that simply refers to himself as just "Nolan" that showed up outside of Rembrandt one day dragging a high ranked monster he killed to sell its parts. However, he was confronted by the guards and after a few choice words and then had a civil conversation with Nolan's fist to their faces. He didn't start the fight, but he sure ended it. In any other situation, he would have had been in some serious trouble, but a strange woman named Jenna helped him escape any repercussions. It had turned out that there were some guards that did not take kindly to foreign mages entering and had been picking fights, but they were unfortunate enough to pick Nolan of all people. Thankfully, this Jenna was there to help him and even told him that she ran a Mage Guild, something that Nolan had not seen in years. For now, he joined the guild for the meantime to find steady work.

What the rest of the guild knows about Nolan is that he used to be a monk and then later became a mercenary for a bit wandering between neighboring kingdoms. If anyone tried to ask him for any more details, they would be told "It's none of their fucking business." Well, besides that he is very obviously not good with women to a comical degree and that he and the guards are on terrible terms. Most notably, he has not told anyone what his magic actually is, and the guild master is the only one who knows due to her witnessing it and having actual knowledge of what it is supposed to look like. If word got out that he was a slayer, his best-case scenario would life imprisonment and the worst is execution, neither getting a trial. He can't die, not yet at least.



Strengths:
1. Knowledgeable: Nolan had read many, many ancient texts regarding the history of the world and magic, but he also knows how to farm, raising cattle, mending and making clothes, hunting and so on to be self-sufficient. This extends to his street smarts as well. Working as a wandering mercenary in many kingdoms, one has to develop skills to survive such as gathering information, negotiations, and so on.

2. Combat Freak: Due to growing up being taught various forms of combat and being pit in different combat situations as a mercenary, he is well versed in both hand-to-hand combat and weaponry.

3. Dancer: Is actually quite the capable dancer though it's only a hobby.

Weaknesses:

1. Emotional Repression: He represses all of his trauma, stress, loneliness, and sadness to the point that he is a ticking time bomb. Nolan has no healthy coping mechanisms, and it leads to self-destructive behavior.

2. Difficult to get along with: His general disposition makes it quite difficult for people to want to be around him.

3. Women: The guy gets easily flustered around women and really just doesn't know what to do. The man absolutely has no game.

Motivation: To make sure that man burns.

Guild and guild mark location: Rising Starborn, Right shoulder

Team Members:
None at the moment

Name: Zenith Villard
Age: 21
Class: B

Personality:
Someone that always has a smile on his face, Zenith is a very kind and honest person with a strong sense of duty and justice towards his fellow man, even if he does not know them. He is the kind of guy that will sit there if someone needs to vent or talk and listen for as long they need him to without judging them. A patient man, he does not tend to resolve issues with violence, but with words if it can be avoided. A surprisingly sarcastic, sassy person with a sharp tongue though all in good fun.

Very few can match him in discipline. Zenith is the kind of man that would wake up at 5 AM every day with a smile on his face. His skin is very thick so it would take a great deal to actually make him angry though it is best to not test those limits.

At first glance with his bright and social nature, one would assume that he would be extroverted, but he actually is quite introverted. He needs his alone time or else he become quite the grumpy individual.

History/Bio:

Do the right thing, that was the lesson that was hammered into Zenith growing up. His parents were Rune Knights, his grandfather before then, and before them there was a tribe, they descended from named Uru that protected Fiore long before the kingdom was established, where an agreement that their people would serve the kingdom in exchange to letting them continue on their traditions. They strove for ideas of justice and service to the people of Fiore. They were everything that all knights strove to be, even until the moment they died protecting people from dark mages.

It was to no one's surprise that Zenith decided to follow into his parents' footsteps to become a Rune Knight as well. He enlisted and trained at a military academy to become a disciplined, powerful soldier and when the time came, he sure enough earned his spot in the Rune Knights. He did not even last a year.

The issue was not resolve, laziness, or any sort of behavior that would be disgraceful to the Rune Knights. It was quite the opposite in fact. Zenith was assigned to a precinct Hargeon Town and while there, he discovered that there were multiple people fudging the numbers on the number of arrests made to make it seem like they were accomplishing more than they actually were. Of course, he investigated and brought evidence in the form of audio recordings and documents to his superior officer. His superior told him that they would look into it. This was the biggest mistake of his life.

It began with his peers harassing him, then given an extra workload only to be given a poor performance review no matter the result, and then he noticed that other Rune Knights were actually following him everywhere he went. There was no debate that this was some sort of intimidation tactic, but it would have taken much more to deter Zenith from doing his job...and they were quick to realize it.

Zenith was arrested and charged for conspiracy of leaking classified info to Dark Guilds, a crime that he did not commit. He was held in prison for two months and when the day came to the trial, the charges against him were dropped due to lack of evidence, but he knew that this was simply just a message to him; that he was completely powerless and if he ever stepped out of line again, they would make every little moment of his life into a hellish experience.

He had been intimidated, disgraced, and humiliated. His career was dead in the water and there was no future for him in the Rune Knights, even he could see that clearly. The only thing left to do was to leave, but not without a parting gift; he made sure that he had copies of the evidence he compiled for the fraudulent data and dropped it off at newspaper because if he was going down, it may as well have been in flames.

Problem now was that after having that criminal charge on his record and the media shit storm he caused, his job prospects were nil at best. He eventually did return home and eventually decided that he had no chance of life in Fiore and that he would need to leave the kingdom. At the same time, he was asked to take Akemi, a girl that he shared a sibling bond with, as far away from Fiore by her grandparents to which he agreed to.

They travelled through Ishgar not without incident no small part to Akemi and eventually arrived in the kingdom of Pergrande where they found a strange sight, a traditional guild. They had heard rumors and did seek it out, but he was not sure what to expect. They did end up joining as a way to obtain stable income and perhaps find a mage that could treat Akemi's condition.

Magic:

Takeover - Beast Soul: You know exactly what it is.



Takeover - Crystalized Soul:

This is a form of ancient, deep magic from his Uru ancestors. When the first beings gained sentience, they began to ask why. Why did things work the way they did? Why did they happen? How could they happen? When collective thought thinks about these questions en masse, they can give birth to a new creature, something that isn't a god or could be called sentient. They are more akin to elementals in that they purely represent an idea, something that can only cause destruction if left unchecked. When used, each form influences the user's personality depending what idea they represent and require much, much more magic to use.



Strengths:
Trained Soldier: A disciplined and effective fighter even without his magic. He is most comfortable with Hand-to-Hand combat and typically does not need weaponry due to the nature of his magic.

Detective: As someone whose old job required him to track down criminals and solve cases, he is quite proficient at complex problem solving and has great intuition.

Poison Immunity: After repeated consumption of Akemi's cooking Zenith resists most poisons if not just straight up immune.

Cooking: Is just a really good cook. Part of his job as a guild member is to be the guild chef.

Weaknesses:

Too Selfless: At times he gives so much of himself that fails to take care of his own needs. Sometimes there are those that take advantage of his good will.

Explosive Emotions: He puts everyone else at first instead of facing his own issues, so he bottles it up until he can't take it anymore. For all the times he lends a shoulder to cry on and be someone that everyone can rely on, he doesn't know how to ask that from others.

Akemi: Despite not being his sister by blood, she is still family to him. She is his responsibility and given her sickly, sheltered nature he is always worried about her.

Guild Mark Location: Lower back, Blue

Extra:
Is very good at cross dressing and makeup. He will be prettier than you.

Name: Markovis Penderghast
Age: 19
Birthday: August 6th

Magic: Thermodynamic Conversion & Abyssal Body
Magic Level: A




History: One would expect someone like Markovis to have some isolated and gloomy upbringing to create such an emotionally void individual. That was not the case. While, yes, he was an only child, his parents were neither too busy to bother with him nor overbearing. They supported him in whatever interests he wanted to pursue when younger, gave him his freedom to pursue them at his own pace, and even never pushed him to do better than he wished. But he wasn’t happy with just being mediocre when it bored him. He skipped grades and was seen as a bit of a prodigy in his youth - gaining a great understanding of Thermodynamic Conversion magic quicker at a younger age than many believed would be able to master such a rare magic, and furthermore graduating at a very young age.

The drive for it was all his own. It wasn’t exactly an external force from his parents, but the accolades of the achievements from those around him - relatives, teachers, the ire of fellow students that were older and placing lower in the class than him - that truly drove the desire to excel. He pushed himself to keep achieving bigger and better, looking into various other magics that eventually led to finding an ancient tomb from which he learned Abyssal Body, as a way of distracting from others around himself. This led to him also entering university on full scholarship at age 14. But upon completing his first year, he found he was losing his drive, despite focusing on theoretical magics and magical applications. He was very capable of exploring the new magic and still making time for his studies, but ultimately found he had no clue what he wanted to do with himself, and professions that require a degree were starting to seem more and more like just attempts to continue receiving accolades instead of something that interested him.

Halfway through his second year, he finally decided it wasn’t worth it. The only thing he did enjoy in all of it was magic and figured that was the better pursuit. He dropped out and decided to focus entirely on developing his magic. The guilds in Fiore held no draw for him, mostly focused on gearing toward particular skill sets that he felt would limit his expansion and exploration. So he looked to other nations, which is how he found Pergrande. While it didn’t seem to boast the same hospitality toward mages as other nations seeking them, it certainly presented its own form of challenge that melded well with his current interests. He spent a while traveling the land on his own, trying to find challenges to his magic but continually falling short on any willing to employ him for such ventures. Eventually, he came across the Rising Starborn guild and settled in with them. While he continued to fall short of things he felt were a challenge, at least he could put other interests to use and be around fellow mages.

Personality: Generally stoic and impassive, Markovis doesn’t generally rise to the occasion for most things. It’s not an easy task to incite anger or sadness, or even a smile, out of the man. He prefers being task oriented, focusing on work and keeping to himself when there isn’t a job of interest on the board. While he may not train to become stronger, he does enjoy challenges and often takes jobs that can be difficult for a single person to do by himself.
Deep within this mask of impassiveness is someone that does care. But he doesn’t quite understand how to show it. So, he doesn’t bother. It’s far easier to work if you don’t have the bothersome voice of compassion whispering in your ear. This causes him to not try to pursue close connections with anyone, and generally views anyone as an associate or an acquaintance with no real feelings of familiarity toward any one individual beyond that.

Guild and guild mark location: Rising Starborn, Right pectoral - dark gray

• Large Magical Reserves: Markovis started training his magic young, and has learned to build up even larger reserves for his magic to cast more spells or continue casting after using a high consumption spell. He tends to recover his energy faster being in darkened conditions, and benefits from the fact that he acts with restraint - preventing him from expending power he doesn’t need to.
• Fearless: That’s not to say he doesn’t have anything he’s afraid of, but when faced with death or torture, or even the same of his allies, he is unyielding and unblinking in his position. He’s not looking to sacrifice himself or others, but he will not bend his position or even break just to see no suffering befalls anyone. The same is said for his pursuit to complete a job, willing to push himself past the limit and risk his very life to ensure the task is completed.
• Intelligent: Let it not be said that one who holds their tongue be proven ignorant. It is clear from the look in his eyes and the words he chooses when he speaks that he is far more intelligent than many give him credit for. He understands finer nuances of conversations even if he lacks the emotional wisdom to feel their impact, and can be quite manipulative if he desires; it usually isn’t the case as he sees most interactions with others as a means to an end. Most jobs end up as simple games of chess to him, mapping out the moves of himself (and often able to predict the moves of partners he chooses to accept) and the opposition before the job is even underway.

• Dispassionate / Emotionally Inept: While there is a part of Markovis that does care about others, he has difficulty not only showing it but also acknowledging it in himself. This especially is seen in the middle of dangerous jobs, should someone get hurt - they should have thought better about what to do to prevent it, or not come on the job to begin with, because an injured partner isn’t something he can allow to interfere with completing a job. He also appears a bit listless and with no true preference over what job type he takes. Though he can be found reading and fond of it, it’s not like there’s a particular focus to anything he does and it shows through with generally a very vacant expression and distant tone.
  
  This all mostly comes from the fact he doesn’t quite grasp emotions. Either his own or others. They aren’t tools, they aren’t generally helpful, and - more specifically - they generally get in the way. He often doesn’t understand humor of others, which generally either kills the joke or fails to deliver on the perceived outcome (not to say humor being made at his expense to laugh at how he failed to grasp it is not the desired outcome) which ultimately will result in him disengaging from the conversation in lue of better prospects.
• Task Oriented: When it comes to taking a job or doing work, he doesn’t allow himself to get distracted. It also tends to mean he has trouble switching gears if necessary. The job comes first, and he will see it through whether it means his partner is injured and he must continue on alone or not. While he does take in information from his surroundings, and will weigh someone’s advice or thoughts on a topic, he generally will demand they follow the most efficient means of completion rather than let the job potentially get botched because of using a plan that may reduce risk of injury.
• Poor People Skills: While self-evident, despite an intelligence to help him get through difficult tasks, the one thing he cannot always work out is how to be delicate about someone’s feelings. He prefers succinct conversations that end quickly to be able to continue on his day, and can oftentimes curt to ensure the interaction ends if necessary.

Greatest Love: His gray tabby cat, Penelope
Motivation: To find something he is truly passionate about

Additional Details: He dislikes nicknames, but not enough to complain should someone insist on using one for him. He will correct once and then just ignore any future improprieties should they arise.

He prefers his personal space, and has issues with people being within arm’s reach. He gets defensive, sometimes tensing up, if touched by most people; it can completely derail his train of thought and will shut him down in a conversation if touched.

Markovis is quite fond of animals and plants. He has led him to foster several stray cats and even nurse a pigeon back to health, though he only kept the one cat. He also has several houseplants - all of which are pet safe should his cat decide to eat them - which he tends to as well. He can name many plants without more than a single glance, and is quite content for long strolls in the park to see the flowers cultivated in the gardens.

Theoretical magic and magical theory, as well as other intellectual ventures of all kinds spark an interest even if he may not seem like it does. Even in college, he enjoyed his classes regarding magical research and theoretical application of lost or ancient magics.

While he isn’t exactly going to always accept a drink, Markovis is also rarely seen without something alcoholic nearby. He argues he’s not an alcoholic, despite the fact his blood is likely 90 proof (or higher). Perhaps that is why there are times he becomes a bit short on longer missions,

Markovis’s love of consumables isn’t just limited to liquor, and is quite fond of cooking as well. While it is easier to simply use the appliances provided to cook, there are times he uses his Thermodynamic Conversion magic to cook.

While he may not look like much, or even really rise to the occasion often, Markovis is a skilled fighter both with weapons and without. He doesn’t “fist fight” per say but does have a great deal of skill in countering opponents' attacks by using their momentum and strength against them. He is a talented swordsman, knowing how to utilize multiple different sized blades from daggers to long swords and even glaives in various sword fighting styles; it seems his most comfortable form is glaive fighting which he uses both at full length and choked up to utilize as a sword. All his movements tend to be much more fluid than strength based with a focus on dodges, counterstrikes, and feints that have him moving like a dancer.

Name: Astoria “Ria” Ocenade
Age: 18
Birthday: June 9th

Magic: Water and Water-Make
Magic Level: B



History: Ria didn’t just grow up with just a family, or in a village. The village was populated by a single clan - the Ocenades. Everyone had a role to play in the village - from farmers and bakers to guardsmen that took shifts patrolling to make sure the village was safe. Those of the clan not born with magic were relegated to menial tasks such as being the farmers or seamstresses or craftsmen or educators of the clan, but everyone had a purpose. Children went to school and learned, and they helped their families with tasks when schoolwork was complete.

Her father was the head, the direct descendent of the original founding father of the clan generations ago. As such, it was expected his children would take over and lead when it was time. Born the older of two, it wasn’t a surprise that her brother was the one expected to fill this role. He was strong, smart, charismatic, and an ice mage like their father and mother - just like pretty much every other mage in the clan.

Except her.

Ria wasn’t just the female - and would have been passed over for leadership of the clan should her brother have been born second anyway - but she also couldn’t use Ice magic. While being gifted with water magic should have still been fine - she was still born a mage, after all - her father was disappointed, and thus her mother was too. She was raised to be prim and proper - the best thing she could do for the clan was to learn all she could about being a good wife and mother after all - in hopes she would marry another strong line of the clan and bear powerful offspring; it was the best her parents could hope for given the only blessing they had in her birth was that she did have a knack for magic according to many of the clansmen. Regardless of what the task was, she never performed it right as far as her parents were concerned. No matter how skilled she was at her magic, she would never be as capable as one of the others. She tried and tried to do better, to be what they wanted her to be, and every time kept coming up short. Never good enough no matter how much better at her lessons or her trials than the other children she was.

She struggled with a lot of issues as a child, and clung to validation wherever she found it. Thanks for melding most assuredly only temporary fixes to problems until one of the ice make mages or craftsmen could repair it more permanently, or an instructor telling her she had exceeded their expectations were manna from heaven when needed. It should have been that the daughter of the clan head was popular, but instead she was typically left on her own with only the ones required to socialize with her actually doing so. So as she grew older, she developed her own hobbies - ones she could do apart from the others - and flourished in those tasks on her own. Freetime was no longer spent trying to see what tasks she could do to help the village and seek the mediocre accolades she could, but in developing further on her other interests - painting, reading, gardening. But that was how she began to struggle to meet expectations. Her desire to find things that made her happy caused her to create an imbalance in maintaining the things she was previously performing properly. So she strove to apply herself better in the public tasks and the increased expectations of her as she grew older, while still trying to give herself time to do things she enjoyed in her diminishing freetime. Missteps and failure were more harshly critiqued, but she still desired the praise and continued her best, and eventually had to give up any attempts to do the things she enjoyed in the desire to regain her lost ground of approval.

Through it all, her brother did his best to support her. It was why she managed the free time she could, and how she continued without utter despair. He trained with her and it was only in matches with him she ever managed to not make a wrong move in the combat or fail to get the proper spell cast. She may have given up completely without her brother’s support. It was his support that drove her to make a believed to be an impossible move. The summer of her 16th year, they were coming back from a training session in the northern fields when they saw the village beginning to empty. The water had pulled back from the beach near the village and a colossal wave could be seen headed for the village. They couldn’t evacuate everyone in time, and the ice-maker mages were advising their wall was not high enough to negate the swell of water raging toward them. Despite her parents trying to stop her, she managed to get to the top of the ice wall built to defend the village. It was from there, she cast a counterspell and clashed her own massive tsunami with the one inbound. The wave that smashed back into the wall was enough to splash against her face like mist against a cliff, and the ocean settled back to its normal depths.

Only her brother had praised her effort, and noted her as the one to actually save the village. It was then Ria decided she could not remain there. Despite his best efforts to get her to stay, her brother resigned and sadly parted with her as Ria took her leave with few goodbyes. She had no direction when she first set out, until she saw the calls for Pergrande. She migrated there and helped with the small things they would let her - helping create rain for farmers in villages she passed through during a particularly dry growth period, and helping fill an irrigation pond for someone. Eventually she found her way to Rembrandt, and furthermore Rising Starborn, and found it to be the perfect place to settle and rediscover herself while still being able to help and feel rewarded for using her powers.

Personality: The first thing most people notice about her is that Ria tries to always be courteous and cheerful, loving to be around people almost as much as she likes reading. A fan of anything upbeat, she can often be seen dancing or heard singing to herself as she goes about her business, and generally moves with a skip in her step. She’s generally reliable, cares about the wellbeing of others regardless of whether she knows them or not, and is willing to do anything for her friends. She doesn't like to see people upset and will often go out of her way to try to cheer someone up.

She often seems like a bit of a ditz - forgetful, aloof, and perhaps even a bit naive. There are still simple things that are common sense to others she often overlooks - like privacy and personal space; some see it as her ditzy ways, but it’s more the childish naivety of not understanding other people may have different comfort levels than her, and her desperate desire to be around others. While not everyone gains automatic trust, Ria seeks to find the good in people and will often trust those that are shown kindness/trust from those she is friends with. She tends to give chances to people that many don’t believe should get chances, and has been led astray by kind words and gestures even if they are given with ill-intent.

Guild and guild mark location: Rising Starborn, Right thigh - Turquoise
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Hydromancer: Her water magic allows her to manipulate water around her as well as magically generate water. That is not the sum of it though. There are a few water spells that come naturally to her, casted like flexing a muscle. Spells of note for this are mostly just self-impacting ones, that help her swim deeper and stay under for extended periods of time. Water responds a bit more fluidly to her than other water casters, and with a bit of studying of the mage’s spells she can eventually manipulate water cast by others too; she hasn’t had the opportunity to see if she can manipulate Celestial’s or Dragon’s water magic, but she’s interested to see if that’s the case too.

Friendly: Ria loves to make friends, and just generally be around others. Whether it’s seeing someone looking down and wanting to cheer them up, or just giving them a person to be with, she doesn’t like seeing others alone. She likes to do things for others, and generally enjoys participating in whatever activity friends or those she chooses to associate with at the moment are doing.

Supportive/Helpful: She likes to help others, whether it be with supporting them in difficult decisions or sticking to getting better with spells. Despite her ditzy/aloof appearance, she understands a lot about the core concept of how different types of magic work, and techniques to make a particular type of magic work better. She’s not as effective at teaching, say, a wook-maker mage at casting as another wood-maker mage might, but she certainly knows enough to help the other wizard improve.
She also just generally likes helping out and working with others, whether it’s just dealing with day to day things or a job or whatever. She feels it’s everyone’s job as part of the guild to help one another out, and it’s just being a good citizen to help when help is needed.

Upbeat/Positive/Cheerful: Believe it or not, like it or not, Ria is a metaphorical ray of sunshine. It isn’t just being friendly. She rarely is seen without a smile on her face or a bounce in her step. She always tries to look on the bright side of things even in the most dire of circumstances. This energy she does try to share with others, and is ever willing to help with figuring out what’s good about a bad experience.

Skilled Combatant: Trained for many years to fight alongside her family, Ria is just as skilled in hand to hand as she is with weapons and magic. She can improvise weapons based on her environment, use the terrain to her advantage, and is quite skilled in using her lithe and agile figure to her advantage. This skill allows her to strike fast, in vulnerable locations, and use her opponent’s attacks and mass against them in her own attacks, dodges, and counterattacks. As a molding mage, she’s developed upon this further to create a fighting style mostly unique to her and her creative style of magic.


Ditzy/Trouble Focusing: She appears to be an airhead. She generally has a lot of things going on in her head, that she can be a bit forgetful. She means well, and definitely doesn’t want to forget important things, but some things just slip through the cracks. Not just dates and times of important things, but maybe not paying attention to her surroundings (not necessarily to trip, but not notice someone flirting, or being uncomfortable because she got too close, etc). She usually apologizes, but it doesn’t keep it from happening again. So she leaves notes to herself, and - while there is an organizational system for everything she writes down - it kinda looks just as chaotic as her thoughts.
While she does know a lot about a lot of topics given how much she reads, it’s not always reliable for her to relay the information she has stored in her head. Most of the time it just seems like she’s full of useless or unrelated information when she offers up things that come to mind during a particular topic she didn’t realize people had moved on from - or connected in her own head without when it apparently didn’t seem to connect to anyone else. When she’s on a roll with a topic that she’s interested in, if no one keeps the conversation focused, there’s a chance she’ll lead whomever she’s talking to on several different tangents before getting back on topic. Then there’s times where it seems like she can’t pull a thought from her head, despite having talked about something with a person already.

Insomnia/Nightmares: She doesn’t like to talk about it, to the point of refusal if someone won’t allow her to just brush off the concern, but she has trouble sleeping. She’s always had trouble sleeping ever since she was little, and Ria avoids dealing with it - chalking it up to something she will eventually grow out of rather than face the root of the problem head on.

Repress the Bad: Negative emotions and misbehaving wasn’t acceptable from her; she had to be the good child, the quiet one, the one that no one had to think about twice. Good wasn’t because people were looking at her, good was because the focus was somewhere else and there wasn’t time to deal with a child being a child. So she suppressed sadness. She made herself believe that she was happy. She won’t let herself dwell on the negative and buries anything that makes her feel anything but happy beneath layers of telling herself it’s fine. It’s second nature to her at this point, to shrug off a wrong done against her with a smile and a carefree “don’t worry about it”; what’s one more thing buried deep down?
Because of this, she doesn’t allow herself to cope with her own negative feelings. Whenever something starts to creep up, feeling angry or sad, she shoves those feelings down into the “doesn’t bother me” zone. There, all the bad feelings go to - well most would hope - die, but really they just fester. Sure, one day they may break through the carefully crafted cage, but for now - it’s holding strong so no need to try to process the bad.

Workaholic: Perhaps workaholic isn’t the proper term, but Ria doesn’t like to sit idle. She constantly pushes herself to stay busy, whether it’s helping a neighbor or friend, gardening, drawing, reading, cleaning...she tries to always be doing something.

Selfless/Low Self-Worth: While some would find being Selfless a strength, she understands it’s not. She puts others before herself, and sometimes (okay, most times) neglects her own wellbeing while being concerned over how someone else is doing. Whether it’s making sure everyone else has eaten before she finally serves herself, or helping someone even if she really should probably sit and rest, or pushing herself beyond her limits to stop someone else from getting hurt. Some of this reckless behavior could be mitigated from others noticing what she’s doing and convincing her to think of herself first, but it’s been a long time since anyone’s noticed. But if she smiles, it means she’s fine, right?

The Yips: For as skilled as she is, all her other weaknesses tend to creep up on her and as the fight continues, she starts to lose touch with her ability to function in combat. This is most common when she is fighting in front of a group or knows there is some level of judgment involved, even in life and death situations. The more she fails, the worse it can get. It isn’t consistent, as she has had instances of sheer gut instinct pushing her to thrive, but it is common enough she will eventually have to face her demons to overcome this.

Appearance: 5’3
She prefers skirts and dresses to pants; in fact, she only has two pairs of pants and two pairs of shorts in her entire wardrobe. Everything else is skirts, dresses, and nice blouses/tops to go with them. She generally avoids dark colors, but not to the point of exclusion.

Additional Details: She collects shiny stones.

She loves gardening, especially for growing fruits and vegetables. Her favorite food is strawberries.

She likes to paint and draw, and enjoys reading. She will read virtually anything to help deal with her insomnia.

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Name: Trinity Rainsteppe
Age: 23
Birthday: May 7th
Magic: Energy Make - A powerful, old maker magic with many secrets and great utility. It is as obtuse as it is useful. It is easy to waste magic power during formation, and finding a substitute energy to use as "material" goes a long way in conserving magic power. Each energy type has its own properties, however. Additionally, lacrima can be used as batteries.
Bard's Legerdemain - A performance magic, Bard's Legerdemain enables a mage to remotely manipulate musical instruments. It's only really useful to musically inclined mages, who can play remotely using this magic.
Requip - Trinity keeps camping supplies and some instruments in her requip space.
Magic Level: B
History: Trinity was born into a quiet life in the countryside, in a small village by a forest. Her father and mother were both mages who were too traditional and stubborn to fold into whatever was happening to Fiore's magical community. In response to their daughter's interest and aptitude, they taught her their magics. Eventually, they left Fiore, seeking a country with a more traditional community for mages.
Once they did settle somewhere, after a time, Trinity decided that she wanted to see more. She'd been through several countries with her parents, in search of a new place to live. What other places were out there? As she grew older, the desire to see more grew. When she expressed the desire to her parents, they received her wish with supplies for the road. Her parents had, of course, seen the yearning in their daughter. They made her promise to return, to tell them where she'd gone, what she'd seen.
Personality: A young woman just trying to live a carefree life.
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Three Strengths:
1. Musical
2. Mechanically inclined
3. Inventive
Three Weaknesses:
1. Squishy mage
2. Loves animals
3. Hesitant combatant
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Additional Details: Her mother has a lot of nice heirlooms, for someone without an ancestry to speak of.

1. Her vision is exceptional, which means that she can see longer distances clearer than average humans.
2. She can go longer than an average human without sleep and only needs several hours to recharge due to higher sleep quality.
3. She is very loyal, being willing to sacrifice herself for anyone who treats her right.

1. Her pain tolerance is high, which is useful in battle, but it causes her to often ignore injuries.
2. She regularly needs to use eye drops, because she has a tendency to overuse her magic.
3. Since she needs to be able to cry on the spot any day any time, she has to keep reminding herself to the bad stuff that happened in her life.

1. He easily sees the good qualities of other people and recognizes them by complimenting them often.
2. Since he absolutely adores cute animals, he will do anything to protect them and not let them get hurt due to problems between humans.
3. He has a very curious nature, which makes him into a good listener.
4. He can be very enthusiastic about basic things.

1. He needs to make sure that his sugar intake is high enough to transform his hair into a cotton candy like structure. Although, since the hair is not actual cotton candy, it won't be as sensitive to liquids.
2. It costs him more magical energy to turn his own hair into a cotton candy like structure than using simple hair magic.
3. Since he absolutely hates fighting, he will do anything to prevent it (acting too lazy to work, trying to talk his way out of battling, etc.).
4. He forgets that his hair only turns into a cotton candy like structure instead of actual cotton candy. He will try to eat his own hair at times and then be disappointed when it doesn't taste like candy.