TheMushroomLord
Xaltwind
Neziul
Pen Name
Lugubrious
CitrusArms
Morgannis
Expendable
LupusIntus
Sky Blue
General Information
- Age: 322
- Gender Identity: Female
- Species: Elf
- Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
- Agent of the OMR?: Yes, rapid response agent
- Reason to be chosen for the mission: Lhoris’ affinity for healing, support and ranged offense makes her an invaluable response agent for if anybody gets seriously hurt.
Appearance
- Height: 5”8
- Weight: 132 lbs
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair Color: Unnaturally light blonde for a human. Almost white.
- Clothing Style: Lhoren's clothing style tends to be dark, chic and trendy. She is a big fan of skirts that are knee-length or longer.
Personality
Lhoris, as an Elf, has a demeanor and attitude that a human may find alien. She is patient to a saintly degree and cynical to a hellish degree. She is friendly to strangers yet seems to see straight through people at times. She does not reminisce about the past, as to her, the world changes too fast. But nor is she excited about the futire. What excites her is knowledge, specically potioncraft knowledge. New ways to approach her life's work with new methods and new ingredients is what she lives for.
Magical Abilities and Skills
Skills
- Martial Arts: With a lot of free time on her hands, Lhoris has a long background of training in boxing, wrestling and savate, which was a strong basis for her to also be trained in MMA on the OMR’s recommendation.
- Music: Lhoris often calls music ‘her first love’ and is a world-class talent with the fiddle, accordion, piano, saxophone, and drums. Her singing voice is equally world-class.
- Archery: Lhoris’ chief weapon of choice is the longbow. Even without magic, she is an incredibly accurate shot as well as a quick draw.
Magic
Lhoris’ primary area of magical skill and expertise is potions. She can brew and enchant potions and other consumable magical items. She is a walking encyclopaedia of worldwide potion lore. From the typical European ‘eye of newt and toe of frog’ witchcraft, to African Witch Doctor Muthi, to Chinese Blood and Qi pills. This is less useful in field work itself but she is frequently asked to prepare batch orders of potions by the OMR.
Much more useful in field work are her other magical fields; healing, and arrow enchantment. By laying her hands on an injured party, she can use her mana pool to heal the body’s wounds directly. She can also enchant the arrows she uses with a variety of effects such as homing or explosive.
Weaponry and Inventory
- Longbow and quiver
- Emergency Potions
Biography
Lhoris was born in 17th Century Marne, France, in a settlement of Elves that lived inside the woodlands. In spite of the rising tension in the country as a result of the Nine Years’ War, the village she lived in was very insular. Trade in potions with the nearby towns supported what little there was of “an economy”. Still, Lhoris was always fascinated by stories and other potion methods from the outside world. During the Jacobite Rebellion around 1750, Loris travelled to Scotland and taught herself English. The flow of information directly as a result of the Seven Years War was far greater than in Rural France and Lhoris learned a lot. Sadly, her time away from home was cut short.
The French Revolution occurred, and the neighbouring towns began raiding the forest settlements and killing Elves. Not content with nobility, anything that wasn’t a working class human being was a target, and several of Lhoris’ childhood friends were burned as Witches. She hastily returned home and helped the Elves fight back with several years of guerilla warfare. Everything changed when Napoleon took power, who saw the benefits of magic in his dreams of conquest and employed the Elves in his service. Lhoris travelled to Egypt and did not aid directly in fighting, but in potioncraft, study and research.
The tide of the war turned and Lhoris was recalled to France. Upon Napoleon’s defeat, she was captured by the British and returned to Scotland after striking a deal where she would defect to the British Empire. The sheer number of wars she assisted with helped greatly in her studies which became her main focus. During the Opium War, she took the opportunity to study Chinese potioncraft. During the Zulu War, she took the opportunity to work with the Witch Doctors. She didn’t care about the wars. The machinations of powerful humans didn’t interest her. She was already two hundred years old and had seen so many regimes rise and fall. Human power was fleeting. Potioncraft was eternal.
Lhoris stayed in service to the British during the Great War, where she returned to her home forest in Marne and began teaching the other Elves all the things she had learned in her travels as they produced potions for the Allies. Upon her request and as reward for her services, the British let Lhoris stay home. Sadly this peace was to be short lived as just a few years later, the Nazis occupied France. The forests were decimated and the Elves scattered. The Nazis had been doing their own research into the occult and the peaceful elves were no match for pure offensive magic. The Elves retreated west and joined resistance cells in the Cities. A way of life that had been maintained by the Elves for over a millenia, gone forever in just one war.
After the war, the world agreed that it did not want this to ever happen again. The non-magical humans formed the United Nations. The magical races formed the Organization of Magical Regulation. Lhoris herself assisted the founding of the organisation but refused a position of authority. She did not want the paperwork involved, and told the other founders to “write to her if they ever need help”. She then moved once again back to Scotland, and lived a fairly solitary life in the small town of Pitlochry.
