Masters of the Hidden Valley: Our Clan, Our Dream

[Lauder]

@Shorticus

YUSSSSSSS

[rush99999]

I'm gonna have to drop out of this 1, so don't wait up for me. Peace out home fries!

[Lexicon]

@Shorticus Thank you very much. I look forward to playing someone who struggles to reconcile her greed with her longing to return home at the head of a powerful clan. Looking forward to more CSes.

[ForKhorne]

@Shorticus Room for 1 more?

[PhoenixWhite]

I'm going to have to postpone my character sheet and whatnot, put it on hold and the like. A lot of things for school popping up soon and I'll need to focus, so just putting up the pre-emptive 'I'll be gone a whole lot'

[Lexicon]

@ForKhorne I'd say throw up a CS and see what Shorticus says. I know he only wanted a few folks, but only Lauder and myself have been accepted so far. Go for it!

[Wernher]

Something a bit less friendly. A lot less.

Name: Eliz Sala
Sex: Female
Age: 22

Appearance:


One who plays with fire is bond to get burned by it and Eliz did and still does a lot of playing with fire. Her masks hides the scars she received when she got too reckless but nothing with much value was lost when half of her face was sacrificed to the gods of war. She doesn't look healthy on the slightest and has no child bearing hips or feeding breasts. Her face and body is gaunt, stress and famine preventing her to eat at her fullest, her one eye is piercing and shines with the same fire she welds.

Personality:
People tend to hate her and she responds in kind. She sees everyone as potential traitors and her own self as the saving grace of the clan, often ignoring orders to do what she knows best, or what she thinks is. Eliz was forced into adulthood and into the violent lifestyle she keeps, having learned early as she was bullied that the best way never to be bullied again is to strike back ten times harder and that the only way to make sure you've won is to insure your enemy will never stand up again.

She sees everything as confrontation, but some realize that this is the way to deal with her. If you know how she ticks, she's not impossible to deal with, it merely demands patience and courtesy, as compliments and soothing words can melt the ice that is her heart, if only just a bit. However, she never, never forgets or forgive the slightest betrayal of her trust, each time that it is betrayed pushing her away more and more from everyone else.

Background:
Her father, a powerful Gallocman, wanted sons, sons to pursue his legacy and strive for glory. His elder was a girl. His deception was great of course when Eliz came to the world and he begged the gods to know why they'd send him a weak and feeble thing that probably wouldn't survive the winter. She did survive and his father would get what he wanted, a single son as his wife, the woman of her life whom he loved like no other, passed away in child birth. He was devastated and fell in drunken rage for most of the time after that, spending the only time he was conscious trying to train his boy and at best ignoring his daughter, who seemed like she wouldn't even be able to bare any warriors in her womb.

Eliz was 12 and her brother, Senlak was 8. Senlak liked his sister although Eliz despised him, it was public knowledge but still she spent her time with him, because all the other kids would throw rocks at her. One day, they went to the forest but Eliz came back alone. A boar had charged them both she said! Senlak having thrown her away to protect her but in doing so, had been thrown out a ledge into a ravine. The clan searched for Senlak and found his body, trauma to the head being the cause of death. There was doubt however, people knew Eliz was a 'Dark Child' and her own father accused her of killing his son and tried to end her life. Elders however got in his way and protected her for there was no real proof.

The one who took her defense was God Talker and Council member Moriak, a respectable old priest who had noticed long ago that in their own ways, the Gods had answered Eliz' prayers and made her a mage, skilled in the more warrior of spells. If someone was favored by the gods enough to have magic, surely they couldn't be all bad? Eliz's father however didn't see it this way and would ultimately die in a raid the next year, sloppy fighting and alcohol finally being his undoing.

Eliz would remain sheltered under Moriak's care and guidance, not mingling with the people more than she ever did until the old man passed away. Free from his guiding hand, she joined the raiders and brought with her an aggressive that gave her the begrudging admiration of the other Gallocmen and ultimately a reputation: Where Eliz goes, there is blood and victory. She was voted on the council by the warriors, people who when they were child despised her but who now saw her destructive powers.

Personal Goals:
For Eliz, the gods speak to men through nature, and what is nature if not a constant contest for survival and dominance? Eliz aims to either free herself from this cycle, or climb up on top. Self sufficiency and dominance, it is what she seeks for herself and her clan.

Clan Goals:
Self sufficiency and dominance. She will always point out to the exile of the clan to explain why they should be on top, why they should never let the clan in a position of weakness to others, no... they should be on top and do everything to achieve this, become ever stronger and like the high king tried to do with their clans, dissolve and absorb all other clans until theirs alone stands on top. After all, herbivores survive on weeds, becoming ever larger, but they only serve as pray to the predators that lurk. Weed eaters! It was what the clan was, but never again. Survival passes through dominance and a creature with no predator is king.

Estate:
Eliz has a house at the center of the village, her father's house, but it is mainly used as a planning room to carry out raids and a small loot depot. No, Eliz lives mostly out of the village, in a cave nearby. If she wants to see someone, she'll throw down a rope ladder for them to climb but otherwise will isolate herself, only going down for the few things she might need. There are of course other ways to climb, not at all dangerous in fact, but if one is not an expert it would probably send down quite a few pebbles, warning her someone is coming. Inside are quite a few items ranging from weapons to pelts along with potteries and a shrine to the gods of war, most of it being prizes of older raids. There is of course, her weapon. A lance without iron, especially designed to break. Wood made from a Hixalian tree so that one stroke by this weapon and survives will have nosea and a fever for the next few days, a token of Eliz's spite.

Traits:

• -1 Ugly
• -1 Myopic (One Eye Missing)
• -1 Abrasive
• -1 Greedy
• -2 Proud
• -3 Reckless
• -3 Untrustworthy
• +1 Imposing
• +2 Intermediate Weapons
• +1 Light Armor
• +1 Warrior
• +1 Raider
• +2 Tactician
• +1 Woodsman
• +3 Warmage
• +2 Intelligent
• +2 Learned
• +2 Magic Resistant

[Lexicon]

Interesting character, Wernher. I have a feeling Maire and Eliz won't get along...at all lol. Also, I added an image of Maire's face to my CS. It isn't perfect, but I like putting up inspirational images when I fill out these sheets.

[Wernher]

Interesting character, Wernher. I have a feeling Maire and Eliz won't get along...at all lol. Also, I added an image of Maire's face to my CS. It isn't perfect, but I like putting up inspirational images when I fill out these sheets.

@Lexicon

Added a picture of her face as well.

I expect that Eliz won't get along well with anyone lol, but for Eliz and Maire? I can imagine the routine between the two would be Eliz having to go to her for whatever potion and getting outraged at what Maire asks for it before grumbling and paying... only so that the next time Maire would want something gained through a raid it's Eliz turn to ask for over the top fees. Overall, if Eliz wouldn't like Maire as a person, she'd still realize that the clan still can't go without an alchemist either.

[Lexicon]

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/92438-masters-of-the-hidden-valley/ooc#post-3420890
Just in case anybody missed the notification lol.

[Shorticus]

Yeah, uhhh. Let me just post the same sleugh of @mentions here...

@Lexicon @Lauder @PhoenixWhite @ForKhorne @Eklispe @Tracyarmav @Voltus_Ventus

If any of you missed the new IC/OOC which is up, click Lexicon's link above. I didn't realize the opening post of a thread doesn't work with @mentions.