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The Elder Scrolls: In the Shadows of Oblivion

Sablyn Renault

Sablyn had seen the inside of her share of cells, but she'd never been packed in this tight. She and her fellow prisoners were squeezed in like brined slaughterfish in a barrel. She started to compose the beginnings of a poem about it, soft bodies squeezed on all sides by stone and metal — kind of like living in Imperial City, come to think of it. That was a good image for a poem — she wished she had something to write it down with.

But it was hard to be poetic when you were being squished against the back wall of a cell by a mess of bodies. She needed fresh air and a better view of what lay outside the metal bars. Moving sideways, she slipped through the mass of bodies, giving apologetic smiles to those who noticed her. She found a good vantage point where she could see what was going on outside the cell, then scanned the prisoners nearest her. To her right was a short young man — close to her own age, perhaps a little younger — whose clothes were covered in blood.

"No cards or dice," she replied to the question he'd asked the group, "but perhaps we can pass the time with tales. I hope there's an interesting one behind your injuries, but if not, perhaps you'd make one up?"

She had a few embellished tales from her life as a pickpocket she could draw on to get the conversation going, but she preferred hearing to telling. And, in her experience, if you got one person telling stories, others would be inspired to join. Hopefully someone in this cell was a charismatic enough storyteller to draw the attention of all in earshot, which would give Sablyn a chance to watch the guards without them noticing her eyes on them. In the guise of smoothing out the wrinkles in her clothes, she felt for the set of lockpicks sewn in the hem of her shirt — a way out for all of them if she could find a chance to use them.

The Elder Scrolls: In the Shadows of Oblivion

Sablyn Renault

Basic Information
Name: Sablyn Renault
Age: 22
Race: Breton
Appearance: Sablyn is a petite young Breton woman with long brown hair that she usually wears in a tight bun to keep it out of her way. Despite her small frame, she is athletic and well muscled from her years staying alive on the streets of Imperial City. She has a set of reliable netch leather armor that she wears on dangerous jobs, and otherwise dresses as fashionably as she can afford to.

Personality
Sablyn has had a rough life, but one wouldn’t know it from her jaunty, carefree demeanor. She’s not particularly talkative — she’s always expressed herself better in writing — but she enjoys good company and loves to laugh. She’s a careful planner, and stays away from drink and other substances that cloud the mind. While she’s taken a frugal turn in recent years as she saves money for her future, she has a bit of a weakness for fine clothes.

Abilities
Skills: Short blades, archery, light armor and unarmored, acrobatics, security, sneaking. Sablyn has spent her life learning to survive threats from people bigger and stronger than her, and so she has learned to use her speed and agility to great effect.
Magic: Sablyn knows some minor spells to help herself blend into the background or even become briefly invisible.

Equipment
Personal Items: Sablyn was dressed to blend in on the streets when she was arrested — a lucky break for her, since it meant she wasn’t wearing her armor or any of her more expensive clothes, which the guards would surely have confiscated. She’s dressed in a common shirt and skirt and inexpensive sandals. She has a set of lockpicks sewn into the hem of her shirt that the guards didn’t find.
The Lock Box: A dagger — well made, but fortunately not her best one — and a small purse of gold.
Stored Items: Locked safely away in her residence are her bow, a quiver of arrows, a pair of steel daggers (one of which carries a poisoning enchantment) a set of netch leather armor, a variety of tools for picking locks and disarming traps, and a wardrobe that includes some brightly colored and well-made clothing as well as several sturdy and unremarkable outfits for travel and for jobs where she doesn’t want to draw attention.

Background
An orphan, Sablyn grew up on the streets of Imperial City. A teenaged Khajiit thief named Kyra took Sablyn under her wing, and taught her to pick pockets and cut purses, and how to handle herself in a fight. The greatest skill Kyra taught her, however, was how to read. In her spare time, Sablyn read every book she could get her hands on. She fell in love with poetry and soon began writing her own. Her early attempts were silly imitations of better things she’d read, but she didn’t care. She was doing it for the love of it, not for anyone to read it.

Kyra and Sablyn worked together for more than a decade, making a living through thievery, cons, and occasional runs of luck at cards. Sablyn was 17, when a burglary job they tried to pull turned out to be a setup orchestrated by a fellow thief named M'desi, whose affections Kyra had spurned. Sablyn escaped, but Kyra was a step too slow and was cut down by a guard.

In her grief, Sablyn found refuge in poetry. For several months, all she did was read and write. When she ran out of money, she turned back to thievery, but now she had a plan: she was going to live lean, work smart, stay away from the card tables, and save money to open a used book shop.

For the past five years she’s been doing just that, continuing to write when she has the time. A few years ago, she had a brief affair with a traveling merchant, who was the first person other than Kyra to whom she’s showed her poetry. He was impressed and encouraged her to publish it, and perhaps she will someday, once she’s in a stable and legitimate business.

She hasn’t forgotten M'desi’s betrayal, and while she’s not going to jeopardize her future plans on his account, she has always kept an eye on him and intends to avenge Kyra as soon as an opportunity presents itself.

Ambition
To make enough money to open her book shop and to either kill M'desi or orchestrate his demise.

The Elder Scrolls: In the Shadows of Oblivion

Here we go! It's a little thin for now, but she'll gain definition as we go.

Sablyn Renault

Basic Information
Name: Sablyn Renault
Age: 22
Race: Breton
Appearance: Sablyn is a petite young Breton woman with long brown hair that she usually wears in a tight bun to keep it out of her way. Despite her small frame, she is athletic and well muscled from her years staying alive on the streets of Imperial City. She has a set of reliable netch leather armor that she wears on dangerous jobs, and otherwise dresses as fashionably as she can afford to.

Personality
Sablyn has had a rough life, but one wouldn’t know it from her jaunty, carefree demeanor. She’s not particularly talkative — she’s always expressed herself better in writing — but she enjoys good company and loves to laugh. She’s a careful planner, and stays away from drink and other substances that cloud the mind. While she’s taken a frugal turn in recent years as she saves money for her future, she has a bit of a weakness for fine clothes.

Abilities
Skills: Short blades, archery, light armor and unarmored, acrobatics, security, sneaking. Sablyn has spent her life learning to survive threats from people bigger and stronger than her, and so she has learned to use her speed and agility to great effect.
Magic: Sablyn knows some minor spells to help herself blend into the background or even become briefly invisible.

Equipment
Personal Items: Sablyn was dressed to blend in on the streets when she was arrested — a lucky break for her, since it meant she wasn’t wearing her armor or any of her more expensive clothes, which the guards would surely have confiscated. She’s dressed in a common shirt and skirt and inexpensive sandals. She has a set of lockpicks sewn into the hem of her shirt that the guards didn’t find.
The Lock Box: A dagger — well made, but fortunately not her best one — and a small purse of gold.
Stored Items: Locked safely away in her residence are her bow, a quiver of arrows, a pair of steel daggers (one of which carries a poisoning enchantment) a set of netch leather armor, a variety of tools for picking locks and disarming traps, and a wardrobe that includes some brightly colored and well-made clothing as well as several sturdy and unremarkable outfits for travel and for jobs where she doesn’t want to draw attention.

Background
An orphan, Sablyn grew up on the streets of Imperial City. A teenaged Khajiit thief named Kyra took Sablyn under her wing, and taught her to pick pockets and cut purses, and how to handle herself in a fight. The greatest skill Kyra taught her, however, was how to read. In her spare time, Sablyn read every book she could get her hands on. She fell in love with poetry and soon began writing her own. Her early attempts were silly imitations of better things she’d read, but she didn’t care. She was doing it for the love of it, not for anyone to read it.

Kyra and Sablyn worked together for more than a decade, making a living through thievery, cons, and occasional runs of luck at cards. Sablyn was 17, when a burglary job they tried to pull turned out to be a setup orchestrated by a fellow thief named M'desi, whose affections Kyra had spurned. Sablyn escaped, but Kyra was a step too slow and was cut down by a guard.

In her grief, Sablyn found refuge in poetry. For several months, all she did was read and write. When she ran out of money, she turned back to thievery, but now she had a plan: she was going to live lean, work smart, stay away from the card tables, and save money to open a used book shop.

For the past five years she’s been doing just that, continuing to write when she has the time. A few years ago, she had a brief affair with a traveling merchant, who was the first person other than Kyra to whom she’s showed her poetry. He was impressed and encouraged her to publish it, and perhaps she will someday, once she’s in a stable and legitimate business.

She hasn’t forgotten M'desi’s betrayal, and while she’s not going to jeopardize her future plans on his account, she has always kept an eye on him and intends to avenge Kyra as soon as an opportunity presents itself.

Ambition
To make enough money to open her book shop and to either kill M'desi or orchestrate his demise.

The Elder Scrolls: In the Shadows of Oblivion

It's been a busy week, but I should be able to get my character sheet finished this weekend.

The Dark God Lies Dreaming < Seeking M or F>

I'm interested! Will DM you

The Elder Scrolls: In the Shadows of Oblivion

Interested! Would love to RP in this world.

The Symphony: Modern Magic

I'm interested!

Goddess Hollow: Guardians of the Divine Bloodline

Meet Kate!

Goddess Hollow: Guardians of the Divine Bloodline

Guardian ◈ Kate Hartnett

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𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦 ◈ _________________________________________________________ ◈ 【Name】 Kate Hartnett ◈ 【Guardian Title】 The Hands of Aceso ◈ 【Birthday】 June 12 ◈ 【Age】 27 ◈ 【Gender】 Female ◈ 【Race】 Caucasian ◈ 【Ethnicity】 Her family has very mixed heritage over the generations, but she's never done a 23andMe to find out the details. ◈ 【Nationality】 American ◈ 【Place of Origin】 Boston, Massachusetts ◈ 【Sexuality】 Bisexual ◈ 【Relationship Status】 In an on-and-off relationship ◈ 【Profession】 Freelance graphic designer, yoga instructor, aspiring painter ◈ 【Likes】 ◈ Art ◈ Yoga ◈ Dancing ◈ Astrology ◈ Folk music ◈ Romantic movies ◈ Learning about spiritual traditions ◈ 【Dislikes】 ◈ Social media ◈ Winter ◈ Violence against people or animals ◈ Angry/abrasive music and nihilistic art ◈ Closed-toed shoes ◈ 【Skills and Talents】 ◈ Skill 1: Painting, especially oil and watercolor ◈ Skill 2: Graphic design ◈ Skill 3: Tarot reading ◈ Talent 1: Singing ◈ Talent 2: Creative writing ◈ 【Items】 ◈ Item 1: Glasses ◈ Item 2: A phone with a good camera ◈ Item 3: A notebook and pen for jotting down ideas ◈ 【Other】 ◈ Left-handed ◈ Has a slight Midwestern accent ◈ Never drinks alcohol .

𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 ◈ _________________________________________________________ "There has to be more to the world than this." Kate Hartnett Spiritual ◈ Creative ◈ Quiet ◈ Kind ◈ Passionate Kate is soft-spoken and introverted, but is passionate about art and spirituality and wishes she had more people to talk about such things with. She supports herself doing freelance graphic design work and teaching yoga classes, but her real love is painting. She's self-taught (her parents insisted on her getting a practical degree instead of majoring in art) and doesn't have the connections, credentials, or knack for social media brand-building to turn her art into her day job, but she's sold a few paintings locally, she practices almost every day, and she's proud of her skill. In her spare time, Kate loves to be out in nature. She's always wishing she could hike and camp more, and on nice days she can usually be found in the arboretum near her apartment, reading in the shade of the trees, painting pictures of the flowers, and walking barefoot in the grass. Origin ◈ _________________________________________________________ Kate grew up in Wisconsin, but moved to New England to attend Boston University, and stayed in Boston after graduating. Her family didn't have much money, and she often felt alienated from her fellow college students, most of whom came from upper middle class families. Raised without much religion or spirituality, Kate became a spiritual seeker. She found organized religion alienating, but connected with other spiritual practices such as astrology and yoga. She's heard of the concept of energy healing, and she feels like she's sometimes been able to tap into something like that. It's faint, and she's not sure herself how she does it, but she seems to be able to help the people around her heal, both physically and emotionally, and more than one of them has told her there's just something about her touch. Throughout her life, Kate has felt like a misfit. Her pragmatic, down-to-earth upbringing didn't provide much of the wonder and beauty she craved, and seeking those things was usually a lonely pursuit. When she went away to college, she met a lot of different kinds of people, but even the artsy ones were career-focused in a way Kate couldn't be even if she wanted to. In the five years since she graduated, she's had to spend far too much of her time hustling up the next gig to keep her rent paid, instead of doing the things that make life worth living. All she wants is to make art, love people, and connect with the transcendent, and it feels to her sometimes like the whole world is set up to make those things hard. Guardian Magic ◈ _________________________________________________________ ◈ 【Magical Gift】 ◈ Healing touch ◈ Kate can heal physical and spiritual wounds by putting her hands on someone who is suffering. Early in the story, she will become known as the Hands of Aceso, after the ancient Greek goddess of healing. ◈ 【Limitations and Weaknesses】 The healing process drains Kate severely. While she doesn't suffer an equivalent injury to the one she's healing, she is weakened as much as if she had suffered it. Using her power too much without enough rest in between would kill her (though at the start of the story she hasn't experimented with it enough to understand this). Kinrædan ◈ _________________________________________________________ ⚜ Acquaintances || ☯ Neutral || ☮ Friends || ♫ Best Friends || ♥ Crush || ⚤ Boyfriend/Girlfriend || ☠ Dislike || •இ• It's Complicated ◈ 【Amanda Hale】【Best Friend】 ♫ Amanda is Kate's best friend from college, an extroverted high achiever who seems to be Kate's polar opposite. But they get along well and trust each other with almost everything. Even as Amanda's career has taken off and they've been able to spend less time together, the relationship is still the most important in Kate's life. ◈ 【Justin Espinoza】【Situationship】 ⚤ Justin is a Boston-based musician whom Kate has an intermittent romantic relationship with. She wishes they could have something more defined and committed, but his band's touring schedule makes that impossible. ◈ 【Julie Lowe】【On-and-off girlfriend】 ⚤ Kate briefly dated Julie in college, and they've broken up and gotten back together many times since. Julie is a beautiful and talented writer, but is acerbic and cruel. When things are good, their relationship feels like a safe, stable place for Kate. When things are bad, Julie's behavior borders on emotionally abusive. ◈ 【William, Sarah, and Andrew Hartnett】【Family】 •இ• Kate's parents William and Sarah still live in Madison, Wisconsin, as does her brother Andrew. After years of working in auto sales, William now owns a dealership, where Andrew works and plans to take over when his father retires. When Kate was growing up, her father drank a lot (which is why Kate never drinks), and her mother tended to be controlling and hypercritical. Kate's relationship with her family has improved over the years, but she has always felt that they have more in common with each other than any of them do with her. Since moving to Boston, she only sees them on Christmas.

Goddess Hollow: Guardians of the Divine Bloodline

It's a pretty place!