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Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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Name: Rory Ó Conghaile
Age: 28
Gender: Male

Appearance: 5’8’’, 170 lbs, fit, strong, torso and hands covered with scars from knife fights

Skills: shooting, brawling, knife fighting, mugging, gambling

Weaponry/Armor/Notable Accessories:
Wields two immense .44 revolvers, which he also can use as clubs. He wears scaled gauntlets, loricated leg defenses, and a steel plate over his belly, the armour held by straps.

History: Rory was born in the poorer neighbourhoods of Netheris. His father worked in metal fabrication, but used to be a miner from Karnv. Rory has three brothers and two sisters. Like many children of poor, alcoholic, lower class families, Rory and his siblings grew up in a loud, noisy, violent household, but his parents always stayed together.

Outside of home and school, Rory would run around and fight other kids for no apparent reason. Home was hell, and hell was home, and that's all that mattered. He was a bad student, and often fought kids at school, 'cause why the hell not. His parents were also violent and aggressive, and sometimes criminal, so it's no surprise what would happen to him.

Once he became a teenager, Rory joined local gangs, and participated in drug trafficking, protection racket, extortion, home invasions, gambling, abduction, armed robbery, and assault. It was not long until he became part of gang fights and street fighting. Fortunately, he managed to always evade the law, and he was always just one faceless hoodlum amidst many.

Rory enjoys life in pubs, and just like his parents, drinks perhaps too much. He saved up enough (stolen) money and earnings from gambling until he could get a gunsmith to make him two beautiful, immense revolvers. They fire .44 cartridges, big bullets capable of taking out most within a couple shots, which saved his life in multiple gunfights against rival gangsters. He made his own armour after almost dying too many times, but remains alive. He plans to keep it that way.

05-Aug-2018 07:16:39 - Last edited on 05-Aug-2018 07:30:48 by Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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Becoming an adult, Rory’s life couldn’t stay stuck to the streets forever. His experience allowed him to become somewhat of an adventurer, going from place to place, city to city, country to country. He earned his money working as a bouncer, caravan guard, or a bounty hunter. But, his criminal past hasn’t really faded away, and he occasionally resorted to waylaying and robbery. Currently, his travels has led him to a mysterious tavern...

Other: Rory can be temperamental, nefarious, and capricious.





Name: Elizabeth Watson
Age: 19
Gender: Female

Appearance: 5’2’’, 110 lbs., dainty blue-eyed brunette

Skills: violinist, singer, painter, pugilist, swordswoman, equestrian

Weaponry/Armor/Notable Accessories: violin, (violin) bow.
One of her father’s sabres:
The sabre has a slightly curved 33-inch blade and scabbard.

Her mother’s .32 revolver:
(we imagine a trigger during RPing)

History: A multitalented, artistic, petite, young gentlewoman from Halai. Elizabeth was raised an only child in a rural environment untouched by technology. Her mother, Annabelle, was a housewife but quite political in town. Her father, Zachary, was a mysterious cultic figure who was often away, and she always remembered him having white hair and a big beard, a rather scary man.

Although the manor house was beautiful, overlooking farmland and orchards, Elizabeth’s home was hell. Her mother hated the bastard child, and often kept Elizabeth locked in her bedroom. Misbehaving resulted in slaps to the buttocks, back or face, sometimes with a short whip, depending on how angry Mother became. With nothing to do, and unable to escape, Elizabeth developed a love for the arts, especially the violin, singing, and painting. This was her escapism from loneliness, isolation, depression, and fear of punishment.

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Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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But, Mother sometimes went horseback riding with her bastard daughter, but this was only to pretend she was a caring mother, fooling the pretentious guests of the day’s retarded tea party. How much Elizabeth hated asking if anyone wanted more tea, then pouring tea for fat old perverts.

Whenever Father returned, he would often practise fencing and shooting with his daughter, who he loved dearly, sometimes involving servants in their training. Father also showed her how to fight without a weapon. The training sometimes included horseback swordplay or shooting, and during this time, Elizabeth found her favorite horse: Chester, a chestnut horse. He was her only friend, even though they rarely saw each other. She would feed him apples whenever she could.

But, Father’s love was hard and heavy, and whenever Elizabeth did something wrong in her training, or something as mild as coughing or sneezing at the table, the least punishment was loud yelling, but being smacked across the head or face occured often.

Growing up in a manor house with access to a variety of high-quality local food, Elizabeth is quite healthy and hardy, and enduring child abuse has toughened her up mentally and physically. Coming from a line of very old-fashioned minor nobles and landowners, she can also ride horses, fence, and shoot pistols, hobbies the nobility of old often practised, which her Father continued for her. Knowing how to use a blade also means she can use her limbs quite well, but her lack of size and mass means her attacks may be underwhelming against anything significantly larger than her.

One night, Elizabeth’s life would turn upside down. She awoke to the smell of smoke and fire. Outside, angry people had amassed, brandishing torches, pitchforks, rifles, and axes, yet many did not seem to be local villagers. They stormed the estate, killing servants and farmhands.

05-Aug-2018 07:18:28 - Last edited on 05-Aug-2018 19:24:38 by Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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Elizabeth leapt out of bed to fetch her clothes and belongings while Father fought the intruders downstairs with sabre and revolver, but there was only so much an old man could do. He was shot through the thigh and chest, then overcome and brutally killed. Nevertheless, this gave Elizabeth enough time to take one of father’s military sabres, and her violin case which she slung over the shoulder. Elizabeth then found Mother, dead on the floor holding a revolver, a bullet hole in her head. Elizabeth took her dead mother’s revolver. Father’s gun cabinet had bullets which she took, then buckled on a sword-belt with a holster underneath her dress. Putting all the money she could find into her violin case, now was time to scram.

Just as the mob charged throughout the house, Elizabeth jumped out a window, escaping the fate of being violently gang raped then murdered. She then ran to the stables, but it was on fire and the horses released or stolen. Fortunately, Elizabeth found her favorite horse, Chester, trotting around the field yet not running away. She ran to him, comforted him, and mounted him as she heard gunshots, a few bullets whizzing past her ears. Despite not having a saddle, Elizabeth galloped away on Chester, gunfire hot on her heels, yet she remained unscathed.

After escaping into the night, Elizabeth left her home that always felt like a prison. For the first time in her life, she felt free. It was both tragic yet relieving, terrifying yet exciting, a chance at a new life. She had tears of sadness and hope. What adventures would she have with Chester? But, when morning came, so did exhaustion, and the sleepy sunshine revealed a horrifying revelation. Chester had been shot multiple times during the escape. Elizabeth dismounted and let Chester lie down. Hugging him around the neck and weeping, the horse gradually died in Elizabeth’s arms. She was alone.

05-Aug-2018 07:18:37

Azi Demonica

Azi Demonica

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Since then, Elizabeth wandered the world, surviving by what money she had, and playing violin and singing in taverns, during fairs, and on the streets, earning change here and there. Ironically, her childhood abuse and passions are what allowed her to survive, something she was partly grateful for.

Many a night Elizabeth went to sleep hungry when her skills failed to impress audiences or obtain some coins, but what little success she had, was just enough to keep on travelling from place to place, always looking for any opportunity. It was the road she must travel. Occasionally, she surprised pickpockets or thugs with her sabre or revolver, always hidden underneath her skirt, always ready to be brandished by Elizabeth who, unsurprisingly for a very small person, has a very big temper.

Now, her next stop is some sort of mysterious tavern. Perhaps she’d be able to earn some money, earn a night’s sleep, and have a decent meal.

Other: Elizabeth has a neutral accent. Contrary to her elegant, prim n’ proper appearance, she has a violent temper, a strong voice due to singing and not as high-pitched as one would expect, and she tries to do the right thing.

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Westenev

Westenev

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Name: Elyssia Snowe
Age: 15
Gender: Female

Appearance:
A petite young lady with fair skin and deep blue eyes. Her long and disheveled strawberry blonde hair has seen better days, her face bare of any makeup. She stands at 5’5”, and weighs around 49kgs.

For clothing, Elyssia dressed more for a casual city stroll than a cross-country marathon. She wears a white blouse with a red above-the-knee skirt. Over this, she wears a large seaweed duffel coat that is so big on her it may as well be a dress, her sleeves having to be rolled up thrice over. Her hiking boots are relatively new, yet has enough mud caked in the soles to make any cleaner weep.

Skills:
~ A bookworm (particularly in regards to creatures or legends)
~ Star enthusiast
~ Basic first aid with a little survival training.
~ Social Etiquette
~ Can play the Piano

Weapons/Armour/Notable Accessories:
~ A collapsible stun baton with flashlight.
~ A silver pocket watch locket, complete with family photo for luck. Worn above the heart.
~ A wallet full of money (screw your rules)
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Westenev

Westenev

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A polite, innocent and kindhearted girl from a wealthy upbringing, who, despite being shy, shows a genuine concern for others. Due to trauma from her early childhood, she is anxious around loud, sudden noises – guns, machinery or falling objects being common offenders.

Perhaps she had a good relationship with her family once, but everything changed after her father died. Her mother began neglecting her children for her work, yet at the same time held them to unrealistic standards. Her older brother and mother bickered constantly, with her brother moving to relatives in Tias when he came of age. Elyssia couldn’t help but resent him a little for this, for after the incident their mother became even more cold and distant. Elyssia was treated more like a prisoner or pawn than a daughter – and the lack of consultation of life-changing matters or how she felt about her arranged future greatly upset her.

So she ran away before her sixteenth birthday.

Catching a boat to Halai, Elyssia has been snaking her way up the Boral-Halai border for several weeks. Having lived rough for several days due to missing the rest stops, she eventually stumbled into a peculiar tavern in the middle of the woods. This was to be her final stop before her final push into Tias...

Other:
Elyssia is not a trained combatant, nor is she particularly fit. She also believes in a godess, though she has not formally been to a church in years.
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15-Aug-2018 03:17:53 - Last edited on 30-Oct-2018 10:55:10 by Westenev

George Rozas

George Rozas

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Name: Corporal Isaac Hallow.
Age: 25.
Gender: Male.

Appearance: Standing at 6'2" in height Isaac is a reasonably tall man with a lean physique, clearly maintaining his fitness regime with some level of strictness. His upbringing in the mountains has kept his skin pale and rough, weathered by cold and many falls down rocky slopes - probably the start of why he kept in shape. With pale blue eyes his gaze can come across as harsh, even predatory under the right circumstances, but warmth can spread into them after a hot meal and some jokes. Dark brown, almost black, hair that used to be kept in a crew cut has grown out a bit into a still short but now messy look. Short of running a hand through it Isaac doesn't pay his hair much attention. That said, he does keep himself clean shaven - old habits die hard.

His outfit is his military fatigues, complete with heavy boots and a pair of gloves. The fatigues are lightly fur-lined for the sake of warding off the cold, their design primarily thinking of long marches in harsh conditions.

Skills: Climbing, light leadership experience, environment conditioning, rifle marksmanship, novice of the Cleaving Blade school of swordsmanship.

Weaponry/Armor/Notable Accessories: Isaac's armour is standard issue for Karnv light infantry, light plating attached to his fatigues that mostly work to stave off glancing blows and monster claws. There's no guarantee that it'd stop a direct hit, generally it's better to avoid taking them.

His first weapon is a semi-automatic rifle that is provided as standard issue equipment for Karnv light infantry, affixed with bayonet for sudden close encounters. It's a rustic and sturdy model of firearm, reliable in near enough any conditions and able to take being used as a spear without compromising its mechanisms. With a sling attached he keeps it hoisted over his shoulder, easy to carry.
I am Inferi.

15-Aug-2018 04:28:31

George Rozas

George Rozas

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Isaac's other weapon is carried upon his back - a large, double-edged two handed sword with a cross-pattern hilt. The blade is quite wide and is perhaps five feet in length, clearly a hefty weapon to wield in combat - but it's the weapon of choice for a practitioner of the Cleaving Blade.

History: Born in a mountain village in the nation of Karnv, Isaac grew up in the harsh climate of cold mountains and rocky slopes - not to mention the various monsters that prowled the heights. He was an adventurous youth who laughed in the face of such dangers, or rather laughed until he and his friends were being chased around by beasties - which he will never admit to happening more than once. (Five times) Lucky for them there were always soldiers posted nearby who would be on the case to save the reckless kids from themselves. Such saviors were what inspired Isaac to make the military his career.

With nothing to say about his ordinary family life - commoners - Isaac enlisted when he came of age and has been sent to a few different postings over the years. Most notably was his posting on the edge of the the mountains where the Cleaving Blade school resided, something which Isaac made his way to each day once his patrols were complete with the intent to train in their ways. He took to it well, but still has much to learn before he can consider advancement.

Action during his service has mostly consisted of dealing with monster threats, which in Karnv can be quite numerous. Occasionally bandits need to be rooted out, thus he has already gone through the experience of killing - it wasn't a great feeling, but to protect his homeland he is resolved to do what must be done. Over the years he has proven a loyal and capable soldier, currently sitting at the rank of Corporal. He was recently tasked by his CO to escort a minor noble out of the country to a waystation where he could be picked up by his own house guard - some tavern out in neutral ground. When he saw the distance Isaac
I am Inferi.

15-Aug-2018 04:28:34

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