Hello.
Very new here (though not to roleplay in general), so I can understand if you don't want me in this... however, it seemed like an interesting thread to dip my toes in, to get a taste of this particular forum.
Name: Sirena Imogen
Age: 22
Height: 5'7''
Weight: 147 lbs
Race:
Class: Swords-mistress
Appearance:
Weapons: Ten swords:
- One rapier
- One katana
- One claymore
- One estoc
- One zweihänder
- Two hook swords
- One khopesh
- One scimitar
- One urumi
Physical Abilities/Skills: Imogen is in excellent physical condition, though does not posses supernatural levels of strength or speed. She has been trained in a wide variety of combat styles, specifically those involving the use of swords, as well as the principles of focus and mediation. Very agile and flexible.
Magic/Special Abilities: Imogen has telekinetic control over her swords (the ten listed, other swords are safe). She can levitate them and move them around with ease, though their speed and the force behind them is around the same as if she were wielding them herself. Multiple swords can be controlled at once this way. She is also aware of their position: even if she can't see them, she'll know pretty much exactly where they are.
She also has the ability to recall them at will. When she recalls a sword, wherever it was previously, it will immediately appear in her hand (or hands). However, a sword cannot appear like this if she is already holding something. To trigger this ability, Imogen grasps at the air, moving her fingers as if she were taking hold of that particular weapon.
Weaknesses: She wears only cloth, no armor. Physically, she is a baseline human, which makes her quite vulnerable. She tends to rely on blocking and evasion for defense.
Also, while her swords are sharp, they can't cut through anything. Armor and shields can make for effective defenses if used well.
Background:
The Sirena clan, goddesses of war. Each one is raised by her mother and aunts, and trained in the martial arts from a very young age. Gradually, they specialize in a certain kind of weapon, be it bow, spear, or sword. Once their training is complete, at the age of fifteen, they are sent out into the world on their own, as novice mercenaries.
They wander, fight, and earn their pay with their legendary skill, honing their abilities to ever-greater heights. Eventually, when one reaches the peak of her skill, she will seek a man worthy of her respect, and bed him. When a Sirena falls pregnant, the child is always a daughter, and as soon as she is born, the mother will leave her partner and return home for the first time, to raise her offspring as a new warrior. Thus the cycle continues.
Occasionally, however, there is an exception. One Sirena, a mistress of the dagger and throwing knife, found love in a strange man, a weaver of magic both powerful and ancient. He gave her a daughter named Imogen, and she took the child to her clan, as she was meant to do.
But it soon became clear that there was something different about this one. From her earliest days, Imogen demonstrated flashes and bursts of arcane power, a strange magic she had inherited from her father. Many clans might have feared this- but the Sirena saw an opportunity. A chance to forge the greatest weapon in the history of their noble lineage.
And so they trained Imogen, pushed her harder than any other. Not only did they teach her the mastery of her body, and of every kind of sword, but also of her magic. She learned to infuse it into her weapons, make them an extension of her will, deadly steel birds that would fly wherever she willed them to. Upon this young girl were piled the greatest of honors- and the greatest of expectations.
When the time came for her fifteenth birthday, she was a capable fighter, ready to go out into the world and carve her legend upon its history. But there remained one final trial. For the Sirena clan had no use for the weak and the old, and thus, one final obligation had to be fulfilled before Imogen could leave.
She was to duel against her mother, to the death.
Should Imogen win, she would become a full member of the clan. Should her mother win, she would become a matriarch, one of the few elders who had bested their daughters and held authority over all of the Sirena. Only the strong would survive, and earn greatness.
When the duel began, Imogen's mother struck out ruthlessly, aiming with all her skill for the throat of her own daughter. But her attacks were effortlessly parried, her daggers knocked aside. But Imogen would not kill her.
Instead, the young warrior left, slaughtering all among the Sirena who tried to stop her. She would not bend to their cruel rules and vicious cycles. She would forge her own path in the world.
And so she did, becoming one of the deadliest warriors her world had ever seen. Until one day, she received an invitation, a challenge unlike any she had heard of before, a chance to prove herself as a warrior greater than any of her vicious ancestors.
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