"Hmmmm, What would Loki do? Hide all their clothes on the other side of campus, or turn their entire room upside-down?"
Name: Elyris Nilsdotter
Race: Pixie
Gender: Female
Appearance: Elyris stands about 5 inches tall, about average height for a female pixie. She has dark green hair that she keeps short, so as not to distract her when flying. Her wings (The picture is a bit weird here, but she just has two of them) are an off-white color, with a lighter green shading down towards their bases. She has fair skin that is kept constantly clear and unblemished no matter what by a good dose of illusion magic. She has large, dark eyes, and is usually seen either keeping her expression as neutral as possible or smiling widely after prank goes well.
Elyris wears the white dress of a priestess-in-training and holds her footwear to a very fancy, formal, standard. Elyris does afford herself a few pieces of casual wear, mostly because she loves making and wearing flower crowns. She also often weaves flowers into her outfits or makes necklaces and sashes out of them with her nature magic. Finally, Elyris always wears her favorite armband, which was a gift from her mother before she went to the Academy.
Magic:Spatial: 7
Nature: 3
Mind: 11
Technique: Illusions: While Elyris never quite got the hang of the telepathic part of mind magic, she has always had a knack with illusions. She can make a fake version of nearly anything, provided it's not too big, and can turn things invisible at will. The main limitation of these illusions is that they are much more effective when the illusions are something people expect or want to see. For instance, it would be a piece of cake to conjure a an illusory piece of cake on someone's birthday, but it would be very difficult to invisibly hide from someone who is actively looking for her, since they expect to see her.
Me two: Whenever you find yourself talking to Elyris, it's very seldom actually her. More likely, she is hiding invisibly nearby while an illusory duplicate does all the hard work of interacting with others. It works in conversations, battles, and pranks! What's not to love?
Bait and switch: To keep people on their toes, Elyris has been known to frequently make an illusion of an object, then after someone realizes it's an illusion, she teleports the real object to the exact same location. Elyris's teleportation skills currently only extend to inanimate objects, but it keeps people around her constantly wondering what's real and what's not, which is exactly how she likes it.
Instant karma: One of Elyris' favorite combat tricks to play is to hide invisible thorns on her arms, hands, and various other parts of her body. Thus, when she's attacked, her opponent will regret it instantly.
Green Thumb: While she's not too great as the healing part of nature magic, Elyris seems to have an natural (Ba tum tshhh) affinity with growing plants. Poisonous or thorny plants are the easiest to grow, of course, but she can manage the occasional flower or two
Abilities: Flight: Not only can Elyris fly, as all Pixies can, but due to her little tiny legs she barely ever walks anywhere. Why bother walking when you can just fly?
Pixie dust: Flight's not just for Pixies! They can also make other things fly, to a certain extent. Just sprinkle a bit of pixie dust on an object or unsuspecting stranger and watch them float away!
Skills: Bookish: Elyris' training required her to know quite a bit about the gods and the divine war, but even so, she's gone above and beyond the requirements. Elyris is genuinely interested in the adventures and peril of mythology, especially when it coincides with history, and has made a great effort to read as much of it as she can.
Lyre lyre, pants on fire: Ironically enough, the illusion mage is good at playing the lyre. What do you know?
Bio: Once upon a time there was a church of pixies in southern Norway that worshipped Loki as their patron god. They told each other stories of Loki's legendary plots and schemes that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was far superior than the other gods whom he so often tricked. These pixies aspired to be as clever and witty as Loki and their priests and priestesses were famous for their guile and cunning.
Then, one day, the divine war came about and amidst the many battles and terrible danger, Loki was killed. The pixie church descended into confusion and infighting broke out among the high priests and priestesses. Eventually, there was a schism in the church that lead to two different sects being formed. The first, the (self-named) Faithful Sect believed that Loki was playing the biggest trick of all time on the world, and that they must prepare for his return. The other one, the Mourning Sect, believed that Loki was truly deceased and went on to mourn his greatness and carry on their religious work in his name.
It was to this second sect that a young pixie named Elyris Nilsdotter was born. Elyris was born at a somber time, to two high priests of the Church of Loki, and began her training to become a priestess almost immediately. Most of the older members of the church, her parents especially, had never really gotten over Loki’s death in the Divine Wars, while many of the children were inducted into their own training programs, making Elyris’s childhood a quiet, serious time. This was severely at odds with the material she was being taught, which mainly consisted of silly pranks and jokes that Loki pulled on his fellow gods in times of old.
Despite the inconsistencies, Elyris devoted herself to her training and studies, reading all the books she could get her hands on and practicing the rites of the Church of Loki to perfection. As she read more and more about the deeds and adventures of Loki, however, she began to question the churches teachings.
“Loki, being as great as he was, just up and dying just because of some war? Surely this was some sort of joke,” she thought to herself. Over time, she began to develop her own theories.
“What if this really was just a big joke that Loki was pulling? And if that were true, wouldn’t it be grand if she, a mere pixie, were to turn that joke around? Pretending to believe him dead so that he would come back to laugh would be the ultimate counter-prank! And what if the rest of the Mourning Sect was also just pretending to believe he’s dead?”They weren’t, of course. The rest of the Mourning Sect were just as morose as ever. But Elyris, unaware of this, continued on with her studies, keeping her musings on the nature of the Church to herself, and training with a new energy and a new hope.
Elyris learned illusion magic and teleportation, as was the tradition within the church, but, to her severe disappointment, had difficulty with reading the thoughts of others. In order to complete her training and gain the powers she needed to become a full fledged priestess of Loki, Elyris’ parents sent her off to Arkangrad Academy, a place they were assured would help her gain the proper skills. Elyris herself is looking forward to this new adventure with hope in her heart. Maybe, just maybe, this will be the key to the “secret” of the Mourning Sect and her own family.
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