[CHAR] Court of Mythic Creatures

Character List

Baroness Sophia Haven (Selene Lunalis) played by QueenOfWands
Princess Xiaolin Xing (Xiulan Wu) played by Rodiak

[QueenOfWands]

Baroness Sophia Haven (Selene Lunalis)

Name: Sophia Haven (Selene Lunalis)

Title: Baroness

Species: Alicorn

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Appearance:

human form

mythic form

Outfit: Selene wears an ankle length, ombré black to white dress, with gold trimmings at the bottom, bust, and end of the sleeves. A few clear gemstones are implanted along the silver belt around her waist. The sleeves are wrist length, and are tight along her upper arms, and grow gapingly wider towards her wrists. The bust has a deep plunge that goes just above the bellybutton. But the plunge is thin, so her breasts are fully covered on both sides. She wears white flats with a similar trim to her gown. Around her head she wears an ornate and intricate silver forehead tiara, with a single clear crystal in the center.

Jewelry/Accessories: On her left wrist she wears a thick, solid black bracelet, on her right a similar bracelet but white. Similar anklets are also around her ankles. But these are mainly covered by her long dress and sleeves. She wears a short-chain, silver locket necklace, with an Alicorn engraved on it.

Mythic Abilities:

• Flight - With her large wings, Selene can take flight. But the longest she has been able to fly without stopping was 5 hours. After that it becomes extremely physically exhausting.
• Healing - With a gentle touch, Selene can heal small wounds, like cuts and bruises, very quickly. Larger, deeper, and more serious injuries can be healed, but with significantly more time. She can also self heal by going unconscious.
• Knowldege Absoption - With consent from another being or creature, Selene is able to absorb thoughts and knowledge from other people by resting her horn to their forehead for an extended period of time. After the connection breaks, most of the knowledge is lost, and usually only key details are remembered.
• Zoolingualism - The ability to communicate with other animals.

Human Magic:

• Floating - Rather than flying around, in human form Selene can float above the floor by an inch or two. Just like flying, she can only do this for about 5 hours before it becomes mentally exhausting.
• Healing - She can still heal wounds with a gentle touch of her hand, but she will tightly wrap the wound first, as to not allow people to see that she caused it to heal fast. This makes an illusion to humans that they are just "quick healers".
• Literary Absorption - Rather than being able to absorb other's thoughts and knowledge, holding her hand on a book allows for the same ability. Most of the knowledge in the end is lost, but key details of the book are remembered.
• Zoolingualism - Selene is still able to communicate with animals, but she has to be more careful not to be noticed by humans, who will definitely have suspicions.

Backstory: The Lunalis household has had a very unfortunate run of luck for several years. Though try as they do to earn favor with the Emperor, their family has never been able to earn enough luck to truly allow them to become more powerful, successful, or rich. The Baron Household of Lunalis has had this ranking for a few thousands of years, and it has only caused them to become more distant from the other, much higher ranking, nobilities. Selene Lunalis was a born optimist, unlike the rest of her family. Selene could see the potential that her family had to become greater and more powerful. A true blessing to the family as she would be the one of age to be sent to The Emperor's Banquet. It rests solely on Selene's shoulders to turn her house's luck around for the next 500 years.

Entourage:

• Xavier Lunalis - Selene's older brother. He is more levelheaded and realistic than his younger sister, patient, and also calculating. He is an Alicorn as well and posses the same abilities as his sister. His main purpose in accompanying his sister is to make sure that she is safe, as he is protective, yet overbearing sometimes. Yet at the same time, Xavier tries to keep it unknown to others of his relationship with Serene.
• Allison Jacobson - Personal Handmaid, servant, and subsequent good friend of Serene. She has been a personal right-hand woman to Selene since they were both young girls. Allison is a wood elf, well known for their serene nature and hardworking ethic. Allison is loyal to a tee.

[Rodiak]

Xiaolin Xing

Name
Xiaolin Xing (Xiulan Wu)
Title
Princess
Species
Loong (Chinese Dragon)
Age
29
Gender
Female
Appearance

Human Apperance

Mythical Apperance

Outfit
Xiaolin wears a traditional dress that dates back to mid 600s AD from the Tang Dynasty. The lower layers of the dress are teal and white while the top layers of the traditional dress and an ombre of a very soft pink to lilac. Each layer is decorated by hand with decorations that depict the Chinese country and nature. She has a red shawl that is adorned with Chinese dragons in gold embroidery and gold trimming. She wears flat-heeled shoes that have similar designs as to her red shawl.
Jewelry/Accessories
Xiaolin has painted a red huadian of flower with sic petals. Half of her hair is tied up with various golden ornaments such as flower pins, half moons, suns, and petals. A few red and lilac ribbons are also tied in her hair that matches her dress. A few braids have been added to her loose hair and have plum blossom flowers on end.
Pretty much this :

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Mythic Abilities

• FLight - Xiaolin could take to the skies without the need of wings. Instead, she uses her magic to grant herself the ability to fly amongst the clouds or just gracing the rivers.
• Elemental Breath - She can generate and manipulate elements within herself in a way that allows her to shape the exhaling of the effect, which is water in all shapes and form.
• Magic Resistance - Being a Loong, she is had the natural resistance against all kinds of magic and
• Water Minipulation - Water is an extension to Xiaolin's body in her mythical form. She can control large amounts of water and change it to her will, be it freeze it or evaporate it. She is only able to do this for a certain amount of time.
• Armored Scales - A Loong is covered in scales, giving her natural armor against blunt weapons and sharp objects smaller than her.

Human Magic

• Flight - Scales start to form over her skin whenever she uses her magic to fly, and it is limited to a very short time.
• Elemental Breath - Xiaolin is only able to generate small breaths of elemental power while in her human form.
• Magic Aquteness - While in human form, she can feel when someone is trying to affect her with magical powers.
• Water Manipulation - She can manipulate small amounts of water for a limited time.

Backstory
Xiaoling was born a Princess, raised a Princess, and treated as a Princess. From a young age, she has been praised by her knowledge of the world and her beauty. She is to be a disciplined, respected, and powerful young lady of the Xing family and go on to become a queen one day. Yet, every minute she was away from the books and the tutors she becomes a free spirit. Most of the time she wonders through the towns in her human form in what her mother would call rags. Other times she wonders the countryside in her Loong form enjoying the breeze in her hair and her scales. Xiaolin is a free spirit, someone who should not have the title of a Princess or the invitation to attend the biggest and most important banquet in the world. She has had this forced upon her, but perhaps with The Emperor's favor this Loong can become a free spirit.
Entourage

• Shuang Cheng - A sea Loong. Shuang is a young gentleman, handpicked by Xiaolin's mother, to protect and serve the Princess. His relationship with Xiaolin started as a cold one, with the Princess often hiding or running away from him. These days their relationship has grown warmer and Xiaolin often seeks a sense of protection and security from him.
  
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• Lian Wang - A river Loong. Lian was 5 when her uncle began to abuse her. She was 7 when Xiaolin came through the door after hearing her cries and taking her far away from that place. Since then Lian has been Xiaolin's closest and most trusted friend. She became her personal handmaiden at the age of 10 and they have never separated since then. A few rumors have surfaced that the two are romantically involved, but those are just rumors.
  
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• Qui - A mountain spring Loong. Qui is a quiet person who tends to stay behind Shuang and Lian, but close enough to keep her eyes on Xiaolin. Her relationship with the Princess is a formal one, with Qui only serving to protect her from any harm that will come her way. Qui knows that the Princess values her freedom when she has it, and she respects that. So whenever Xiaolin gives Qui a signal the woman will simply nod and let the Princess have her space. Even then, Qui tries to watch for any danger around Xiaolin from afar.
  
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  All those who accompany Xiaolin are trained as private protectors for the Princess

[Clever Hans]

Darthem Doriat

Name: Darthem Doriat (Grandohmus)

Title: Marquess of Northcliff

Species: Manticore

Age: 44

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Human: Doriat appears as a taciturn young man in his 20's. He is tall with a wiry build. His hair is black and receding somewhat, cut short with a widow's peak. His face is narrow and chiseled, with a prominent nose and high cheek bones. His eyes are black difficult to read.

Mythic: A Spell for Chameleon-style manticore, with the body of a large lion, a human/lion hybrid head, bat wings, and a scorpion's tail. His fur is golden with a reddish tinge, as is his mane. The tail is red, and the wings are black.

Outfit: Like most of his race, Doriat does not go in for bright colors or flashy accoutrement. His knee-length formal coat is of black velvet, with some silver piping of simple geometric designs along the seams, pockets, and cuffs. It has a medium-high collar, no lapels, and fairly tight sleeves. The brocade waistcoat peeking out from beneath is of muted green and silver. The lace of his shirt is simple and not excessive. The knee-length pants match the coat. Simple silver stockings and black shoes complete the outfit.

Jewelry/Accessories: Doriat carries a gentleman's walking stick [this would be a sword cane unless such things are banned from court] topped with a massive knob of polished but uncut emerald. His only adornment is a jet signet ring.

Mythic Abilities:

Flight – From a physics perspective, Grandohmus' wings are not large enough to lift him off the ground; thus, magic is what propels him, while the wings do the job of course correction. While in flight, Grandohmus can outrace a fast horse.
Poison – Grandohmus' tail can deliver two kinds of toxin: one can paralyze a human for 8-12 hours, while the other is a deadly poison that can kill a human in under five minutes.
Generate winds – By flapping his wings, Grandohmus can magically produce hurricane-level winds.
Powerful jaw – Manticores have large mouths with teeth whorls similar to that of a shark. Their jaws can easily crunch bone and wood, and even deform low-quality metal.
Enhanced senses – Manticores have an acute sense of smell and hearing, and they can see well in the dark. They also have a general sense of magicalness around them, though it is non-specific and directional only in proportion to the power of the magic.

Human Magic:

Flight - While not able to fly in human form, Doriat can enhance his movements, making him very agile and fleet of foot.
Poison - This ability has no human analogue.
Generate winds – Doriat can conjure light breezes ("He seems never to sweat") and quick puffs of wind that can blow out candles or lanterns.
Powerful jaw – Doriat has strong jaws and teeth, for a human. He can take a punch better than a prizefighter.
Animal senses – Similar to his mythic form, but to a lesser degree.

Backstory: Grandohmus comes from a long line of manticores charged with defending a part of the northern border from barbarian invaders. Much of the time, they prefer to keep to themselves, guard the northern marches, and avoid the sometimes-unwanted attention of their erratic emperor. Grandohmus is very much his father's son, and shares their general disdain for emotional outbursts, frippery, and attention-seeking. The primary instruction he was given was to not incur the wrath of the emperor – in other words, don’t go overboard in trying to win, and concentrate more on trying not to lose. Grandohmus has a bit of a competitive streak, though, and it remains to be seen how he approaches the games…

Entourage: In keeping with his race's austere lifestyle, Grandohmus brought just one servant: Eton, his personal aide-de-camp and valet. In human form, Eton appears as a man in his late 60's, with silver hair and wizened features. In his mythic form, his abilities and appearance are similar to his master's.