[hider=Jay Goldfinch] [img]https://i.imgur.com/oPaY66A.jpg[/img] (note; this character won't be introduced until the Great Crusade, I'm just apping her now so it's done) [u][b]Character Name:[/b][/u] Lygeia 'Jay' Goldfinch [u][b]Rank/Role:[/b][/u] Navis Imperialis Commander, Second in Command of the Heavy Cruiser [i]Intruder[/i] [u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] Blonde-haired, freckle-faced, thin but well-built, Lygeia is a broadly unmodified Human from Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, she wears the blue-and-white of the Navis Imperialis, with a single golden pauldron as homage to her roots as a Voidsman-at-Arms. [u][b]Biography:[/b][/u] Born on the Saturnyne moon of Iapetus, Jay was enamoured with the void from a young age. Raised by a family of Saturnyne Sailors, she enlisted as a Voidsman-at-Arms as soon as she was old enough, skipping the lengthier process of officerhood for a chance to get into the stars [i]now[/i]. Quickly seeing action against first the Ringers and later Xenos, she gained significant combat experience--and a reputation for uncanny luck, surviving explosions and even decompression remarkably unscathed, and often being found in the midst of scenes of carnage unharmed. When she did take an injury fighting a Xenos raid on Titan, she was awarded a battlefield commission as a Lieutenant and given training in weapons systems; by the time she was thirty, she was a Lieutenant Commander in command of her own picket ship, and at fifty she is the second-in-command of the Heavy Cruiser [i]Intruder[/i], a Commander and the presumed next-in-line for the Captain's chair when her superior, Captain Thomas, retires. Lygeia, however, craves more than a Captain's chair--one day she means to become an Admiral, and then...well. The stars are the limit. [/hider] [hider=Leanna de Vries] [img]https://i.imgur.com/GvotzQ6.png[/img] [u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Leanna de Vries [u][b]Legion:[/b][/u] XII [u][b]Homeworld:[/b][/u] Verakracht A feudal world originally occupied by Xenos, the young Primarch rapidly became identified as a divine figure by the locals, having quite literally fallen from the heavens; raised by guerillas in the forests and wilds outside of civilisation, she was groomed as a leader by her foster parents, themselves nobles deposed when the Xenos came from the stars. When the time came and the support of the people grew strong enough, Leanna was chosen to lead the rebellion--for it was the abduction and public executions of her parents that had galvanised the population. Leading a military revolt against the occupiers, she achieved military success, crowned empress of a new Empire--an Empire now tasked with the multiple responsibilities of defending against a returning invasion, squashing internal discontent, and conquering the rest of the world. The only assistance came in the form of a decrepit space hulk, which crashed into the southern continent, flattened three villages with debris, and unleashed an archaeotech cache into the hands of Leanna's Empire--which they have put to [i]very[/i] good use. [u][b]Psyker Grade:[/b][/u] Iota [u][b]Skills/Abilities:[/b][/u] A skilled orator with a supernatural aura of charismatic gravitas, Leanna is also a talented administrator, politico, artist, and warrior, though unlike many of her siblings, she prefers to fight in 'light' armour, trusting on superhuman speed and grace to carry her, rather than inhibiting heavy armour; that said, she remains a Primarch, and 'light' for her standards is still enough to take most smallarms and indirect impacts. In combat, she is primarily a fencer, favouring a 'small' Volkite pistol as a sidearm, and otherwise prioritising command and control over personal glory; she is a strategist and tactician before a warrior, though she is skilled with both. [u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] Tall and imposing like her siblings, Leanna is slimmer of frame than they. Hardly fragile by mortal standards, she remains less physically imposing than her peers, with a narrow face and almond-shaped eyes. Typically wearing a black headwrap with a jewelled tiara as a badge of office, she carries a thin, wickedly-curved power-sword and a volkite pistol with golden detailing. Her armour is golden and unsubtly ornamented, though she has a more subdued variant when the situation requires. With her veil down, her hair is raven-black, shoulder-length, and typically tied into a bun, plait, or tail, to keep it out of her eyes. More notably, her time in the warp mutated her--her teeth are razor-sharp, her eyes slitted, with black sclera and pink pupils, and a lion-like tail with a black tuft lashes behind her. [u][b]Concept:[/b][/u] Lady Fulgrim. Also; 'Light Primarch'. Duellist and Strategist instead of Warrior [/hider] [hider=Legio XII] [img]https://i.imgur.com/zUTPttN.png[/img] Legion Name: Starlight Knights Associated Primach: Leanna de Vries Concept: 'Light' Legion, intended as scouts, special forces, probing attacks, assassinations, and, slightly anachronistically, melee duellists. Their unit culture and combat doctrine is distinctly that of a medieval force given firearms, with a higher priority on individual prowess and chivalric honour-codes than military professionalism and unit cohesion. An army of Gallants, they embody the platonic ideal of an Arthurian-style knight--emotional to the point of mania, fiercely passionate, skilled with blade and volkite alike, and with a unit-wide notion of [i]noblesse oblige[/i], they are determined that their geneseed gives them an obligation to care for the mortals of the Emperor's realm, and to shepherd them to eternal glory through camaraderie and force of arms. Often caught singing aloud when battle is joined, the Knights prize skills like art, music, and good management as much or more than skill at arms, giving them a reputation as somewhat decadent, and perhaps slightly mad, if lethally skilled. They prefer modified Astartes Scout-pattern armour, which allows greater mobility and agility in combat, with volkite pistols or rifles paired with power weapons for close-quarters combat. Most visually distinctive besides their equipment are their mutations; geneseed producing sympathetic changes to their lost Primarch, typically manifesting in sharpened teeth, black sclera and irises with colourful slitted pupils, and leonine tails, though not all members of the Legion receive every mutation--and some receive others entirely. [/hider]