Name: Shara Vey
Appearance: 
Shara stands taller than most other women, able to look most men in the eye. She keeps her brown hair above her shoulders, a style originating of rebellion, and continued through habit. While she is no pampered statue as so many other noblewoman, it is obvious Shara is no warrior.
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Alignment: Mage
Covenant/Affiliation: Member of Vey family, University Student
Personality: Shara is inquisitive to a fault. Her curiosity often lead her into places and subjects where she is not welcome. She can become easily distracted when working with something she considers dull, welcoming any excuse to move to something more interesting. She enjoys the company of others, and abhors fighting with others, preferring to find a diplomatic solution. Although usually kind, Shara often peruses her goals with a single-mindedly, unwittingly hurting and using those around her to reach those goals.
Shara is a very trusting individual, almost naive. She is quick to forgive as well, though those who have hurt or scared her lose the implicit trust she grants most people. Although open about all else, Shara is very shy regarding her magic.
Biography: Shara is the second daughter of a minor noble, with three elder brothers. The early years of her life were spent in ease, running through the Vey family's manor and the surrounding gardens. Being the youngest child of five, she was not burdened with the responsibilities of the others. She would not need to inherit and manage the estates, as her eldest brother Gregor would, nor did she have to face the trials of becoming a paladin as Jerem would. With Elana as her elder sister, she didn't even have to fear an early political marriage to some nasty lord, far away. She and Alend, the youngest brother, were the two who had their lives open. At least that was how she thought at the time.
Yet, things were fated to change. In her tenth year, her brother Alend discovered he was a mage. Dutifully, and blissfully unaware of how terrible the consequences would be, he turned himself over to be purified. When he was released by the paladins, he was not the same. He had great difficulty bearing the pain, and would often spend days paralyzed, occasionally breaking into convulsions and screams. A year later, he vanished, only to be found floating face down in the Vey's decorative fountain. So when Shara discovered she was a mage herself, she was very cautious in keeper her powers hidden, determined not to go through the torment that ended her brother's life.
Years passed, and Shara managed to keep her powers hidden, very rarely using them, despite how the magic seemed to call to her, to
want to be used. It frightened her how it burned inside of her. Jerem went off to the mainland to become a paladin, Elana was dutifully betrothed to some other lords son, and sailed away shortly after. And while time passed, Shara learned, and that learning made her hungry for more. Her parents hired her a tutor, and she was taught to read and write, the basic history of the land, and of math and natural philosophy. Eventually, with the help of her tutor, she convinced her parents to send her to learn at Tiena University, for they could not afford to send her to the capital.
And so Shara left the island that had been her home for most of her life, and ventured out into the mainland. Tiena was a fairly small town, and it seemed to have grown up around the University, rather than the town existing first. She felt an odd sense of safety in the town. Perhaps it was the lack of paladins, or that it distanced her from the memories of Alend's torture and death. But finally, in her seventeenth year, she began to try using her powers.
Power Description: Shara is a deceiver. An illusionist. She can manipulate light, and eventually sound, smell, as well creating perceived touch. However that is far away, and she can currently only perform simple manipulations of light.
Spells/Abilities: Illuminate: In it's current form, this spell creates a heatless flame to light up an area, however with more skill, it can be refined to create varying degrees of brightness, or can be controlled to only shine in certain directions, and create various colors.
Darken: A complement to illuminate. Unlike illuminate, which creates a point which eminates non-magical light, darken acts like a coating, sucking in light and making things seem darker. Darken can be used in conjunction with illuminate to create illusions. Things that aren't really there, but appear to all as if they are. At her current skill, these illusions are either small, or lack detail. Shara cannot yet control darken on its own, and only knows how to use it with Illuminate to create illusions.
Noise: The ability to create the illusion of sound from a given point. Shara does not yet know she can do this.
Scent: The ability to create the illusion of a smell. Shara does not yet know she can do this.
Other Skills: Education: Having spent three years at the University before the call was sent out, and having spent time learning prior to that, Shara has a wide range of skills and knowledge. She knows basic healing and anatomy, surgery, and basic alchemy. Shara also has some knowledge of history, literature, architecture, and natural philosophy, although these will not likely be helpful in times to come. She is decent at sketching, though art is hardly a strong point of hers. Although she has a wide breadth of knowledge and skills, she is not specialized in any of them, and any who have specifically been trained will be able to outperform her.
Other: Shara is by no means a warrior. She has no fighting skills, and little experience surviving out in the world.
