Name: Nadia Seraphine Tioran

Title: Lady or Captain

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Species: Weretiger

Kingdom: Kithage

Role: Commander

Social Standing:

Nadia comes from minor nobility, the kind with a title but no lands or great wealth. She makes her trade as an officer in the army, and is damn good at it.

Appearance:

This young woman is fairly average in height, around 5 feet 5 inches when standing straight, which is common for Nadia as her posture is impeccable. Her warm olive skin is bronzed to a shade of ochre, and is lightly scarred with old wounds as well as fresher scrapes. Most of the scars are small and grouped on her hands and forearms, but there is one large one that runs horizontally along her left side just under her breast. Nadia has strong, calloused hands and is ambidextrous. Her fingers are rather short, and end in blunt nails that she keeps carefully trimmed. Nadia’s body is fairly rectangular in shape, with narrow shoulders and hips. Her form is leanly muscled, and she moves with a litheness and liquid grace that communicates confidence and dexterity. She is fairly flat-chested, but has a firm and perky ass to make up for it.

Nadia’s face is best described as oval, being noticeably longer than it is wide. She has a strong jaw and lightly defined cheekbones, with a fairly blunt chin. Her lips are light peach in color, and somewhat heart-shaped due to their short width and heavy bottom lip. Her nose is similarly narrow, with a low bridge that means her nose doesn’t protrude much from her face. Nadia’s nose is straight and has small nostrils. The most striking feature of Nadia’s face is without a doubt her eyes. They are large and angular, and the irises are a gleaming amber. Above her eyes Nadia has somewhat thick, mostly straight eyebrows. Her eyebrows are jet black, matching her perfectly straight locks. Nadia generally prefers to keep her hair shorn close to the skin on the sides and in an undercut in the back. The rest of the hair is typically kept shoulder length, and usually tied up in either a bun or ponytail.

Secondary Appearance:

In her shifted form, Nadia is 8 feet 4 inches tall and has both humanoid and feline features. Her skin sprouts short fur in the characteristic tiger pattern of orange and shimmering black, with white fur on her throat, torso, and belly. She grows a tail as well which is around 2 feet long, and her hands become paws tipped with razor sharp claws that can be retracted as she chooses. Her face becomes entirely feline, with her eyes remaining the same amber as they are in her human form. Her feet and legs lengthen considerably to propel her new, enlarged form through the air in impressive leaps and bounds, and her feet also become clawed.

Personality: | Loyal/Protective | Confident/Arrogant | Dutiful/Responsible | Friendly yet Serious | Cunning/Strategic | Ambitious | Can be impatient/Short tempered | Observant | Strong Morals/Honorable | Brave | Honest |

If asked to describe Nadia in one word, most people would choose honorable. She has a strong sense of justice and has been a rule follower for all her life. That’s not to say she sees the world in black in white, but more to emphasize that it is incredibly important to Nadia both that she treats others fairly and they afford her the same courtesy. To this end she hates liars and cheaters, and will find it hard to forgive any kind of betrayal. She expects the same kind of honesty and responsibility from others that she exhibits, and treats things like broken promises and abandoned obligations very seriously. Nadia lives what she preaches, and is loyal and protective to those she considers friends and family. While she is friendly enough to those she doesn’t know, Nadia tends to have a serious air about her nearly all the time, and dismisses what she considers frivolous pastimes like dancing and creating art. The one exception to this is the creation of weapons and armor, and Nadia holds weaponsmiths and armorsmiths in high regard.

In combat Nadia is brave, fearlessly charging the enemy and going to the aid of her allies. This isn’t to say she’s reckless, as Nadia possesses a great mind for strategy and can quickly assess a situation and come up with a decent plan. The one way the heat of battle does get to her is to shorten her temper, and she doesn’t take kindly to having her orders questioned in the spur of the moment. Part of this is due to her own confidence in her abilities, as Nadia is well aware of her talents and has a pretty high opinion of herself. However she also knows when she’s not good at something, and that is what makes her such a great leader. Nadia is exceptional at figuring out how to leverage her teammates’ abilities to best effect, and she knows how to talk to people in a way that makes them feel like their efforts are valued. Finally, Nadia is fairly ambitious, with her long-term goal to eventually become the general of all Kithage’s army.

Armour: When she’s not on duty, Nadia enjoys wearing sturdy leather boots, trousers, and long, loose tunics with vests over top. She prefers neutral browns, grays, and blacks most of the time, but will accent using brighter greens and oranges on occasion. These same clothes are then generally worn under her armor as well. During combat situations, Nadia typically wears a set of leather armor consisting of a cuirass, bracers, greaves, and cuisses. The armor is fashioned with special buckles that allow it to stretch and accommodate her shifted form, although coverage is lessened due to her increase in size. The armor was passed down from her father and has intricate gold detailing in a variety of nature and tiger-themed patterns. This is what she will wear during the expedition, but Nadia also has a set of utilitarian splint mail that she will carry on her horse in case she needs stronger armor and better protection is worth the loss of access to her shifted form. Or, gods forbid, something happens to her leather…

Weapons: Nadia dual wields a pair of scimitars she calls Honor and Duty, which were gifted to her by her family once she earned the rank of captain. The blades are both durable and beautiful, with gold pommels inlaid with sapphires, sharkskin wrapped grips, and runic blessings carved along the sides of the blades. The scabbards are equally high quality, made of embossed leather with gold detailing. Additionally, Nadia owns a basic multi-use 8 inch dagger that can be used in hunting or self-defense, should her scimitars not be at hand. She keeps the dagger in a sheath fastened to her lower back.

Abilities:

-Enhanced Speed

-Enhanced Strength

-Enhanced Senses

-Enhanced Agility

Strengths:

-Expert combatant with her chosen weapons, as well as when she’s in her shifted form or unarmed

-Good leader, she excels at finding what her people are good at and organizing them with the other members to form units which are stronger than the sum of their parts

-Tactical mind, Nadia can quickly analyze a combat scenario and come up with a plan

-Strong rider, she can fight from horseback as well

Weaknesses:

-Silver, it essentially leaves a chemical burn upon contact

-Ranged combat, if the enemy isn’t in sword reach Nadia can’t do much to hurt them

-Prone to overworking herself and burning out, has a hard time sharing her burdens or asking for help

-She can be arrogant and short tempered at times, typically in combat situations or when someone questions her authority

Mount: Nadia has owned her 7 year old Warlander stallion Abraxas since he was 2 years old, and personally trained him for riding, fighting, and wearing tack such as saddles and barding. Abraxas is 15.2 hands at the withers and a gorgeous dapple gray, with a black mane and white tail. While Nadia has heavy metal and ornamental tack and barding for him, for the expedition he will wear simple leather barding, saddle, bridle, and saddle bags.

Name: Amarathi Evariel, first name meaning Beautiful WingBeast and last name meaning Spring Peryton

Age: Appears no older than 20, but is 28

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Biromantic Asexual

Species: Cervitaur with Elf and Phoenix ancestry

Kingdom: Etraetis

Role: Healer

Social Standing: Amarathi works for the palace as a healer, apprenticed to her mother. The Evariels are not nobility by any means, but they have been employed by the royal family for generations. When the Evariels were asked to provide a healer for the expedition, it fell to Amarathi to go as the youngest and therefore least valuable.

Appearance:

As a cervitaur, Amarathi appears as a mixture of humanoid and deer, specifically caribou. Where the caribou’s neck would be is instead the body of a humanoid female from the waist up. Altogether, Amarathi measures 6 feet and 2 inches from the bottom of her hooves to the top of her head, with her human part being about 2 and a half feet in length. The color of her fur varies with the season, being a dark brown in summer and becoming more gray in winter. There is also white fur on her belly, the underside of her tail, and above each hoof. When it comes to her human half, Amarathi has a very slight and willowy build, and tawny brown skin with warm yellow undertones. Her arms are thin and not noticeably muscled, with most of her strength coming from her back and abdomen as it takes a lot of core strength to keep her humanoid half upright. That said, her hands are fairly calloused from practicing archery as well as seeing heavy use picking and preparing herbs and tinctures. Her fingers are lithe and nimble, and typically stained green and brown from plants.

Amarathi’s face is fairly angular, and shaped like a diamond with wide cheekbones and a pointed chin. She has a rosebud mouth with lips the color of a dusky rose. Her nose is rather large and a bit flat, with a rounded tip that is just barely upturned. Small reddish brown freckles dot her skin, and are heaviest on her nose and cheeks. Amarathi’s eyes are wide and almond shaped, with the irises a gorgeous liquid brown like dark maple syrup. Her eyebrows are thin and slightly arched, and match the color of her hair. Amarathi’s locks could best be categorized as 3A, with loose curls that have edged just out of wavy territory. The hair is cinnamon colored, with rusty red highlights that make Amarathi’s curls appear a shade of burnt sienna or auburn in direct sunlight. She prefers to leave her hair down, where it reaches slightly above her midback. Poking out of her curls are a pair of large, severely pointed ears. Finally, depending on the season Amarathi will grow a set of caribou antlers up to 20 inches long and 2 feet wide. She begins growing the antlers in early spring and sheds them in late fall.

Personality: | Innocent | Peaceful | Gentle | Responsible | Nervous | Cheerful | Friendly | Compassionate | Loyal | Timid | Meticulous |

Like the prey animal she resembles, Amarathi is a timid and peaceful creature. She dislikes violence and will nearly always prefer flight over fight. She also dislikes interpersonal conflict, and is very much a people-pleaser who will roll over to give someone else what they want from her. She is very naive and easy to manipulate, as she desires to see the best in everyone and will only realize someone’s true nature when it escalates to the physical. However, her cheerful and friendly nature means that she makes friends with ease, and Amarathi considers her friends to be her greatest treasures.

In her job as a healer, Amarathi has honed her organizational and observational skills to quickly find the things she needs or figure out what is wrong with someone. This position has also forced her to get over her natural herbivore’s aversion to blood, though she still flinches out of sympathy when her patients are in pain. Amaranthi is 100% the kind of bleeding heart to assist strangers in need, even if it interferes with the mission or is against her better judgment. She is also too forgiving for her own good. Finally, Amarathi absolutely loves being in nature and has an uncanny ability to gain the trust of wild animals, as well as a sixth sense when it comes to remembering where she’s been.

Armour: Amarathi isn’t much of a fighter, and prefers to flee when her opponent is close enough to hit her. However she does wear a padded cloth gambeson over her everyday attire of a simple cloth wrap over her breasts. She also carries a couple of saddle bags over her caribou half, as well as a cloak to wear if it gets cold. The cloak is a soft gray marked with a herald of a peryton composed of a phoenix and stag.

Weapons: A simple recurve bow and arrows fletched with gray goose feathers

Abilities:

-Limited fire generation/manipulation. The phoenix blood has thinned with each new generation of Evariels, and their powers diminish as well. Amarathi can summon small flames for limited amounts of time, as well as control their movements. If she overextends herself it is possible for her to suffer severe burns/dehydration, even to the point of death.

-Limited healing capabilities. Same situation as before. Amarathi can heal injuries or sickness/poison, but she cannot bring back the dead or regrow lost limbs. Healing is fatiguing to her, more so the graver the condition. The length of time it takes to complete the healing is also dependent on the severity. She can’t die from using this ability, but passing out is not out of the question. She can also heal herself with the same restrictions. Her eyes turn pure glowing gold when this ability is used.

Strengths:

-Expert herbalist

-Good sense of direction and memory

-Accurate archer

-Decently fast, she can run as fast as a horse

Weaknesses:

-Size/shape, there are some places she simply cannot fit into or terrains that are hard for her to cross. For example climbing a tree or cliff is out of the question

-Terrible melee fighter

-Skittish, she tends to panic when danger is near which could result in being separated from her allies or running into a trap

-Naive, very trusting and easy to take advantage of

Animal Companion: Amarathi has a 4 year old dog named Eladrin who more or less resembles a German Shepard. He is trained as her protector as well as in finding rare herbs such as mushrooms and flowers through scent.

Other: Pm me to discuss affiliations!