Aika Lennone
"Why am I here, you ask? Well, for the adventure of course!"
While most sylphs are somewhat distinguishable by paler skin, lankier bodies, and sometimes even supernatural colors in the eyes and bluish patterns along the skin, Aika resembles a human almost entirely, save for brighter eyes than the normal blue of a human. She stands at 5'07" and weighs an airy 83lbs, despite having a healthy looking body shape.
Creature Type Outsider (sylph)
Genre Fantasy (magus)
Age 20
Sex Female
Ability Scores (Total +10)
Strength +1
Dexterity +3
Constitution ±0
Intelligence +3
Wisdom ±0
Charisma +3
Standard Skills / Abilities Aika has made it almost entirely on her own in her adventuring, stopping only to stay with masters of her practices. Because of this, she is highly capable of survival in the wildernesses and on roads between cities. Honed is her sense of direction, hunting, gathering, and crafting. As expected, she is also an expert of one-handed swords, having learned many different styles to complement her magic.
Supernatural Abilities Spellcasting As a magus, Aika studies and prepares spells from a tome, much like a wizard. Because of her travels to study under many different magicians, her spell book is filled with a wide variety of arcane spells. As such, she is usually resourceful enough for most situations, and is without specialization in a particular school of magic.
Magus Arcana The link between steel and spell for a magus is through their arcana. All magi train to tap into a reservoir of pure magical energy to enhance their abilities with their weapons. Unlike the complexity of spellcasting, magus arcanas are used to apply simple yet powerful effects to the user or their weapon such as increased speed, elemental effects, and other magical auras. Some magi specialize their arcana to enhance themselves, while others cast multiple layers of magic onto their weapons. Aika balances her use of arcana over herself and her sword.
Outsider Traits Outsiders are creatures that are not native to the Material Plane, the realm of more common folk such as humans. Unlike humanoids, outsiders may come in highly varied shapes and sizes, and there are many planes that can be home to outsiders. As different as they come, all outsiders share the trait of their physical forms and their souls being one. Unlike humanoids, whose souls are released into the ether upon death, the soul of an outsider is the very same form as their physical body, and is killed along with it. Because of this lack of dual nature, it is much more challenging to bring an outsider back from the dead. Outsiders breathe, but do not need to eat or sleep (but may do so if desired).
Sylph Traits Sylphs are a unique blend of humanoids and outsiders with an affinity for air. They, along with their elemental cousins Ifrits, Oreads, and Undines, are most commonly born from human parents, but the race of their humanoid heritage does little to impact the nature of the Sylph themselves. Because of their close supernatural ties to the plane of air, sylphs that express magical talent do so with greater ease and potency when dealing with air or electricity. Additionally, they resist harm from electricity, and those that hone their connection to the elements find themselves able to fly or conduct lightning to great effect.
Personality Chaotic Good Youthful, and full of energy and wonder, Aika feels most at home both at the heart of a battlefield and in the depths of a library. She often might act too immature or optimistic for her companions, but she is a reliable source of knowledge, and a well trusted blade. She feels a strong sense to protect and guide those weaker than her, but also to fight against those who would overpower others. Due to her abusive past, she becomes reclusive and closed off when asked about it, particularly her family.
Equipment Because she is almost always on the road adventuring, Aika travels light. Other than living and travelling essentials, she carries a sword crafted of mythril and imbued with a simple base layer of magical power, and her spell tome. She wears light studded armor underneath a scholar's cloak.
Biography / History Sylphs are generally born as a result of either strong magical presences of the element of air during the birth, or a heritage of air elemental energy in their bloodline, such as a genie, or sometimes completely randomly. Aika's existence as a sylph instead of human remains a mystery to her, as she grew up in a family that saw her as a monster rather than a gift. Because of this, she was the victim of severe verbal, physical, and emotional abuse for all of her childhood. At the age of 15, her magical abilities had matured enough that the broken, beaten and senseless young Aika took revenge on her parents, "accidentally" killing them in a fit of rage. After fighting herself on emotions of vengeance, and mourning, she decided to hone her powers and abilities so that she would never misuse them again, and to protect others so they don't end up like her. Now, she travels the world, searching for masters of magic and martial art to study and practice under so that she may become the most powerful spell-blade in the world.