Name: Lyandra d'Argonne
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Clothing: Lyandra's standard outfit is composed of quite the exquisite tastes, due to her life enjoying such fortunes. She wears a black velvet vest, with a white dress shirt. Accompanying the nice outfit, she typically wears a black, neat tie. Lyandra also wears nearly skin tight white pants, pressed and always appear to be fresh from the iron. The one oddity to her outfit is her choice of shoe wear. Despite her very aristocratic taste in clothes, she opts to wear commoner shoes, though a decent set of commoners shoes.
When not dressing for formal occasions, Lyandra will most likely be wearing her 'combat' outfit. Lyandra armored winged greaves that reach to her knee. The greaves are dressed with fine silver markings, and seemed to have never seen the light of actual combat, giving their shiny look and even more intricate visage. Along with the greaves, Lyandra also opts for a light, agile breastplate piece, that more than meets the demands Lyandra has. The breastplate, as the greaves, is marked in delicate silver markings, along with the seemingly unscratched surface of the armor. Under the breastplate and greaves, Lyandra wears a black leotard, to allow her maximum mobility, without worrying about loose clothing. As a type of flare to her normally unpronounced outfit, Lyandra wears a red cape that reaches down to her rear, fully covering her back. The clasp of the cape is adorned with two crossed rapiers, signifying the wearer of the cape to be a royal duelist. To prevent any type of harm coming to her knuckles, or palms, Lyandra wears fingerless padded leather gloves that help immensely with her grip, and her ability to use her parrying dagger without harming herself.
Appearance: Lyandra has the body of a filled out younger woman, that has not seen years of stress and combat, leading many to believe her age is closer to 20, than it is to 31. a very soft face, lending more to the aristocratic features one would see in a wealthy person. Although soft, the face is starting to show small signs of aging, and stress, no doubt from Lyandra's long career as a professional duelist. Her supple hazelnut skin remains young appearing, giving the distinction the woman had just entered her mid-twenties, instead of her early thirties, and betrays the life long experience she had gathered. Usually tied in a bun, Lyandra's raven black hair is one of her more defining features, especially in contrast to her normal outfits. Lyandra will almost never take her hair out of it's small bun, as to keep the hair out of her face, given it's natural wavy texture. Lyandra's eyes are another feature that stick out amongst her appearance. Lyandra's eyes are nearly lime-colored, producing a very piercing green stare, even with Lyandra is attempting to show compassion, or empathy.
Weapons: Lyandra is typically seen with at least two different weapons, a straight sword, and a parrying dagger, which she uses almost always in conjunction, and has trained with since her first start as a duelist. The straight sword is made from a type of metal that gives the blade a milky appearance, almost as white as marble. The sword itself evokes imagery that relates to a high standing noble, or lord. The hand guard, which almost completely eclipses the wielder's hand, is also extremely intricate, with swords imprinted into the intricate hand guard. The sword itself appears to be fresh from the forge, with no marks on the blade, or hand guard that indicate extended use.
Lyandra's parrying dagger is just as intricate as her straight sword, bearing the same milky blade, along with swords imprinted into the cross guard, and hilt, of the small dagger. The dagger, unlike the armor or straight sword, shows signs of extreme use, with small notches on parts of the weapon, along with somewhat of a dull color to the entire item itself. These small imperfections, however, obviously have no impairment on the weapons actually performance, as the signs of extended use do not go farther than surface deep.
Personality: Lyandra's personality is a far cry from her line of work, and career achievements. The normal professional duelist are portrayed as silent, stoic, and disciplined warriors, who fight to the end for their lords. Lyandra, on the other hand, is shy, and often shuns social interaction. This, coupled with her lack of social experience, makes he quite the creature to observe as she stumbles and tumbles through most social conversations. Despite her social ineptitude, Lyandra has a high sense of personal honor, and holds her self to an ever increasing standard. This ever increasing bar makes Lyandra's potential nearly immeasurable. Even in her current age, the duelist shows signs that she is constantly improving her already deadly ability. The curious thing about Lyandra is her ability to trigger a switch in her head whenever faced with a duel, or danger. The switch in Lyandra's head flips the woman from shy and lonesome traveler, to unrepentant, blood stained warrior. Lyandra often does her best to ignore this dark side of her, but knows it is a necessity in order to make killing, and her job, easier, least she be plagued by the death rattles, and final words, of her victims. During the switch, Lyandra is nearly completely silent, very observant, and merciless. While she does not appear to enjoy taking the life of those that she faces, it does not appear as if the event causes her any discomfort.
History: Lyandra grew up to a wealthy family on a fair away continent known as Terris. The continent is dominated by an entity known as the Golden Empire, which acts as the governmental body of the union of 17 nations, in which make up the Golden Empire's borders. The Golden Empire is known as an entity with unparallelled social, and economical, stability, along with the largest military, and most well-funded, in the world. Despite this, The Golden Empire is a extremely isolationist country, preferring to focus on keeping it's mighty empire on top of everything, rather than risking anything by meddling with foreign powers. This policy reflects on it's citizens, which are often prefer privacy, and xenophobic behaviors, to exploring or breaking any sort of mold. Lyandra's family was amongst the landed elites of the capital. The access to nearly unlimited amounts of funds lended Lyandra a helping hand in any endeavor she chose. The d'Argonne family was known as a family that supplied well-trained members of the family to the Golden Empire to serve as outstanding officers. Born a female, Lyandra was unable to serve any type of front line duty for the Golden Empire, leading her family to select an unorthodox choice for the young girl. Lyandra was to serve as the champion for the d'Argonne family, and for any lord who would pay a large sum of wealth. Starting at the age of 9, the normal age for most professional duelist, Lyandra began her journey as a aristocratic duelist. Commencing her first actual duel at the young age of 14, she won against a older and stronger opponent very handedly. For many years, Lyandra acted as the champion for many important houses in the Golden Empire, including the royal family, eventually earning the title 'The Blade', bestowed onto Lyandra at the age of 24. Lyandra served as the catalyst for even foreign disputes that the Golden Empire had. With an amazing feat of taking part in well over 200 duels, Lyandra had never been defeated. Now, at the age of 31, Lyandra has chosen to mark out her own path, and to break from the norm for her. Taking up her dueling weapons and labeling herself as an adventurer, Lyandra left the Golden Empire, in order to chase the mysteries of the Bauchan Forest, and find something that had evaded her most of her life. True adventure.