Currently, in the northern kingdom, the land can be divided by north, south, east, and west. The western coast is primarily rainforests, shifting from temperate to tropical as it grows closer to the equator. Towards the middle, the land is mountainous in the north, before turning to high deserts and growing progressively hotter further south. The east is mostly grasslands, following the same cold to hot pattern as the rest of the land.

This world contains humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, fairies, and mermaids. The dwarves and the orcs live in the mountainous regions of the central north, living in relative peace and harmony amongst themselves. Dwarves are not commonly seen outside of their lands, but some do travel despite the isolationist nature of their people. Elves and fairies are more commonly seen in the forested regions of the world, and fairies, being quite mysterious and shy, are almost never seen. Elves are somewhat more social, and are known to travel quite a bit, although they are still not seen as frequently as humans, who are found in every part of the world. Mermaids, naturally, are found mostly in coastal areas, although it is possible for some to be seen in freshwater. Most tend to resemble fish from their region, although emigration does occur, and some may look very out of place in their new watery environments.

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The Ladies

Liliana

Age

25

Gender

Female

Sexuality

Bisexual

Species

Elf

Abilities

Mage, so energy-based magic

Appearance

Liliana is a very beautiful young woman, whose appearance is quite striking, due to the mixed cultural background. For starters, she is pale. Very, very pale. Her skin is an ivory white color, smooth and near-flawless, save for the scar through the left corner of her lips. Her lips are a slight natural rose petal pink that contrasts nicely with the pale color of her skin. A few beauty marks accentuate her natural beauty, with one being on her right nostril, another above the right side of her lips, and a third on her left cheekbone, just beneath the corner of her left eye.

Liliana is descended from parents who come from quite different places, and her features reflect this in a beautiful and unique way. From her mother, she inherited her gorgeous eyes, a deep, soulful brown so dark they are nearly black, and an upturned almond shape, framed by long, thick lashes. Her lips, also inherited from her mother, are full and soft, with a small mouth and a slight natural part between them that shows just a slight amount of her definitely unnaturally straight and white teeth. Her long, black hair was another trait from her mother’s side. Thick, soft waves of jet black hair fall down her back and around her face like shiny, beautiful silk.

From her father, Liliana inherited her sharper features. Her jawline and chin are sharp and well-defined, and her nose is much the same, being beautiful features added to her stunning appearance. It would seem her beauty marks were inherited from her father as well, given the fact that he has a few dotted around his face. Her high cheekbones and the wave in her hair are also features that are inherited from her father’s side.

Her features are, like anyone’s not perfect, and she does have a slightly overlong nose, with somewhat uneven nostrils, the right being a touch higher than the other. Her lips are also crooked, resulting in a natural smirk that is only emphasized whenever she smiles. Paired with the arched black brows and the angular, narrowed eyes, the crookedness of the smile gives an air of mischief, like she knows more than she’s letting on.

Physically, Liliana is not exactly imposing, standing at the not-so-staggering height of five feet tall even. She holds herself with a certain grace and confidence that makes her seem a little taller than she is, but it doesn’t tend to do much. She has an overall petite body type, though all of her weight is carried around her hips. Her narrow shoulders and small waist contrast with her more than generous hips, which makes for a very clear pear body type. She has thick thighs, thick calves, and a larger backside. The rest of her body is pretty petite by contrast, with a small chest, slim arms, and a slender neck. Her hands are delicate and graceful, with long, thin fingers often considered “piano players’ hands”. Her nails are well taken care of and usually kept neat and tidy, just a touch longer than her fingertips.

Liliana’s voice is quite pleasant to listen to, lower than average for a woman, and smooth, with just a touch of a flirtatious air to it. This is aided by the unique accent that melds with her words like honey.

Personality

Liliana is quiet. That is perhaps the first thing that one will notice about her. She rarely speaks unless spoken to, but is always observing. Her dark eyes have a clear, calculated intelligence to them that speaks volumes about her internal monologue. She is rarely one to give input to a conversation, but always one to observe it. Surprisingly for her introversion, Faye is actually quite commonly seen doing this at parties and other social gatherings and locations.

In fact, she is quite adventurous and enjoys getting out of the house. She loves to travel and has been all over the world in her lifetime, and even when she is in one place for a while, she is always looking for something new to do there. Liliana thrives on change, excitement, and adventure, and is someone who is more than happy to pursue these things fully independently.

Intellect is a core value, and she displays it quite beautifully. Top of her classes throughout her school days and always learning even into adulthood, Liliana prides herself on being a very well-learned woman. Creativity is very much the same situation, as she follows many artistic pursuits, such as writing and painting.

Liliana isn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows, though, as she can be an incredibly difficult person to get along with. She is stubborn, quick to anger, and holds a general disdain for most people. While she finds others interesting to watch, she hates being approached and talked to, and rarely responds positively to it. If someone can get her attention somehow or interest her in the topic of conversation, she can be surprisingly talkative, but the issue is trying to interest her in a conversation.

Should one get to know her, they would find that she is quite sassy and sarcastic, often making quips about her current situations, or teasing the person she is talking to. Sometimes this is gentle and almost affectionate. Others, not so much. She has a tendency to be feisty no matter who she is talking to, and even if she likes someone, she will always point out if they are wrong. She loves a battle of the wits, even if the other party is not willingly participating. She can even get downright mean to someone if they happen to get on her bad side, which isn’t hard considering how prickly she usually is at first. While she would never call herself petty, the term very much applies.

Should someone manage to befriend Liliana, however, they would find a very affectionate, warm, if quite socially awkward, young woman. She is incredibly protective of her few friends, and, although she will still taunt and tease them, she will be the first to jump to their defense if anyone else dares. Friends are often treated to gifts, usually in the form of something hand made or gestures, as she believes that such things are far more meaningful than what one can buy.

While she is a good friend, one of Liliana’s biggest flaws is her ego. She firmly believes that she is absolutely brilliant, stunningly beautiful, and an incredibly powerful mage, and should these views be threatened, she becomes very irate. Her quick temper can easily override her otherwise rational and intelligent thought and have been known to get her into trouble. Oftentimes, her desire to avenge a slight is what leads her into pettiness.

Skills

Liliana’s strengths lie in her intellect, perceptiveness, and ingenuity. She is quite agile and fast, and tends to enjoy climbing things and hanging out in odd places. She has some miscellaneous skills that are more based around hobbies, like writing and drawing, but her most useful ones are her physical and mental skills.

Ineptitudes

Liliana is quite physically weak, and cannot keep up with most people physically. In part because of this, she’s also not in any way skilled with any weapons. Additionally, many life skills that most people learn are quite foreign to her due to her background. She can’t cook, is fairly frivolous in her spending, and isn’t particularly keen on taking orders.

Strengths

Liliana’s magic and knowledge of a variety of topics make her quite useful to those around her. She is essentially the group scholar

Weaknesses

Liliana’s biggest weaknesses are her temper, ego, and her extreme stubbornness. She isn’t an easy person to work with, especially if she’s already in a mood.

Likes

Liliana loves reading, writing, music of any kind, and travel. She loves to experience new things, and is quite fond of nature, particularly flowers and cats. She likes rainstorms, autumn, dark colors, and is very much a night owl.

Dislikes

She’s not particularly fond of the morning, forced exercise, and social interaction. She doesn’t enjoy being controlled by anyone, and certainly hates following what other people are doing, as she is an anticonformist to a fault. She also holds a strong disdain for pastel colors, large crowds, ignorant people, and children.

Background

The oldest daughter of a prestigious elven noble family, Liliana had the setup to be quite an important person in the scholarly world. But, as a young woman, for reasons she will not share if asked, she left the family home. Whether she was disowned, ran away, or something of the like is unknown, but by the expression on her face and tone of her voice whenever she speaks about her family, it can be assumed she did not leave on good terms.

Aravae

Age

238

Gender

Female

Sexuality

Bisexual

Species

Elf

Abilities

Nature magic. Growing plants, communing with animals, healing, the works.

Appearance

Aravae is a tall and very slender woman --5’7” and 120 pounds-- with narrow shoulders, a small waist, and long, slender legs. She has a small chest, slightly curvier hips, and generally has the build one would associate with a ballet dancer. While she is very slim, she’s also fairly muscular and surprisingly strong and flexible, enough that she is capable of holding her own against people twice her size in a fight. She isn’t overly concerned with wearing anything to enhance her appearance, but she likes to keep her nails slightly longer than normal and tries to ensure she always at least looks presentable.

Aravae’s skin is a warm tan tone, marked with a few small scars from her years at work. The only major injury she has incurred in her time is a burn on her chest, stretching from her left shoulder over her collarbone, and down to about the middle of her stomach. It is a fairly faint burn, indicating that it must be quite old, and she doesn’t ever seem to talk about how she got it. Her nose and cheeks are covered in many freckles, as well as her shoulders, though they become much less frequent over the rest of her body. Due to the amount of time she spends in the sun, her skin has a very sunkissed hue to it, and she never seems to visibly blush.

She has a diamond face shape with high cheekbones and a sharp chin. Her eyes are a round shape, big, and slightly upturned, in a way that makes her look both highly intelligent and entirely more innocent than she actually is. She has dark brows and thick eyelashes that make her uniquely colored eyes pop beautifully. Her eyes are blue around the edges of the iris, fading into a forest green color around the pupils. Her lips are full, and she has a round, slightly upturned nose.

Her face is framed by long, curly, dark brown hair that reaches about halfway down her back. Due to its unruliness and tendency to get in her way, she prefers to put it up in a ponytail or a long braid. When she does have the rare day off, she likes to style it, and is oddly attached to keeping it at its length, despite the fact that cropping it short would be far more practical for her job.

Personality

Aravae is cold. Icy, even. She doesn’t talk much and mostly just glares. She is careful, methodical, and almost cruel to some extent. But, somehow, she is a healer, and not a ruthless killer. Not that she’s not capable, but for some unknown reason, she actively chooses to be nonviolent when it is not necessary. She instead makes the choice to avoid people unless she needs to interact with them. She is cold towards her group, but is not outwardly cruel. Simply serious and quiet and not particularly empathetic. She makes, in some ways, a perfect medic. She is not someone who gets caught up in her emotions and is willing to care for the people around her despite holding little or no emotional attachment. Surprisingly, though, she is capable of kindness. It is incredibly rare, but she can show compassion and a liking for those around her, although this seems to only have been reserved for her family and random animals she can find.

Skills

Aravae is skilled with a bow, as well as being highly trained in medicine, though most of her experience comes from healing wounded animals. In addition, she is very stealthy and good at hiding, a skill honed from years of hunting.

Ineptitudes

Aravae has exactly zero social skills, and, other than things about plants, she doesn’t have a ton of knowledge to her name. She has lived most of her life in solitude in the forest and the ways of those outside of it are foreign to her.

Strengths

Aravae can heal people quite efficiently and, surprisingly, is quite motherly. Additionally, she is quite agile and strong.

Weaknesses

As a plant cannot grow when devoid of sunlight, Aravae cannot use her power if she is kept in darkness for an extended period of time. Usually, the longest she can go out of sunlight without losing her abilities is about 36 hours.

Likes

Plants, particularly flowering ones, being alone, sunlight

Dislikes

Fire, crowds, people in general

Background

Aravae grew up in isolation, raised only by her mother, father, and older brother. She lost her home in a forest fire long ago, and has been working mostly alone since, up until she met with the group a few months back and began working with them as a medic.

The Gentlemen

Aneni

Age

48

Gender

Male

Sexuality

Heterosexual

Species

Human

Abilities

Nothin’ but great swordsmanship and dad energy

Appearance

Aneni is big. Very big. He stands at the staggering height of six-foot-four, with a build that might remind one of a Roman gladiator. With beautiful, rich, dark skin, and defined features emphasized by the lines across his skin that have come from his near fifty years of age, Aneni is considered quite a distinguished older man. His thick, black hair is graying at the temples, though the majority of the long dreadlocks are still jet black. His demeanor and stature is that of a serious, calm professional.

Aneni has very strong features, with defined cheekbones, full lips, and a sharp, downturned nose. His eyes are narrow, dark, and intelligent. They seem to catch anything around them, with nothing, be it enemy or ally, escaping his perception.

Personality

Skills

Ineptitudes

Strengths

Weaknesses

Likes

Dislikes

Background

Vylan

Age

25

Gender

Male

Sexuality

Pansexual

Species

Human/possibly half elf

Abilities

Nothing Special

Appearance

With piercing, icy eyes, confidence galore, and a jawline that could cut diamonds, Vylan is quite the stunner. A perpetual smirk, a relaxed way of moving, and an easy charm that flows through his smooth baritone voice like honey make Vy rather attractive to anyone that’s into the roguish sort of men. His skin is a light, sunkissed tan with a slight olive undertone that brings out the color of his striking eyes quite nicely.

Standing at approximately six foot one, with a lean but muscular build, Vy is of roughly average build for an Ilomin man. His broad shoulders and lean, defined arms portray a physical strength that is certainly above average, but perhaps looks more like his strengths should be in the area of agility than muscularity. His hands are strong and slim, with a certain grace and gentleness to it that one might not expect from someone like him. His legs are long and muscular, making up more of his height than the rest of him, though he has rather oversized feet that can make him a little bit on the clumsy side.

Handsome is quite an accurate term for this man, with a diamond face shape, complete with that sharp, defined jawline and chin. Overall, his features can be described as quite Grecian. His lips are full and soft, and he always seems to have a smirk present on his face, his nose is defined and sharp, with a strong bridge and slight downward slope, and his cheekbones are high and quite defined, almost slightly gaunt. His eyes are an almond shape, with the sharp, piercing gold color, framed by thick brown lashes. Above his piercing eyes sit thick, dark brows that have a natural downturned arch and make for some fairly intense eyes.

His hair is thick, shoulder length, and wavy. Often, he has it pulled back into a short ponytail, but when left to himself, he leaves it loose and lets it fall in front of his face. He believes it frames his features quite well, and tends to let it down if he’s around someone he finds attractive. Its color is a deep, warm brown, leaning on auburn.

Personality

Vylan, on the surface, seems like an arrogant bastard, to say the least. Always grinning, always flirting, and always easily working his way through most things. This isn’t entirely untrue, as he is more than a little overconfident, and it is known to bite him in the ass quite a lot. He believes he knows what he’s doing at all times, even when he hasn’t the slightest clue what he actually is doing.

Skills

Vy could sell ice to a northerner and charm the beard off a dwarf, is good with his little dagger, and is quite stealthy and sly, with quick fingers.

Ineptitudes

Vy can’t really fight with anything other than a little knife, making him all but useless in combat situations wherein he isn’t hidden somehow.

Strengths

Vylan is great with people, making him an excellent manipulator and persuader.

Weaknesses

Vy can be a bit oblivious at times, and isn’t particularly good in a fight.

Likes

Travel, adventure, the open sea and sky, making friends

Dislikes

Long-term relationships, authority, fighting

Background

Vy’s background practically bred a perfect smooth talker. His family were merchants, and exceptionally good at their craft.

It had been nearly three weeks since the group had found any work, and Aneni was growing worried. They were growing short on funding, and he had found himself breaking up a number of spats between the increasingly desperate members. They were running low on supplies, and, though Aravae was a proficient hunter, they were in need of foods not easily grown here, as well as healing supplies. The elf was useful, but she could grow nothing without a starting point.

Not to mention the group’s liquor supplies were pitiful. Mercenaries liked their liquor, and they tended to grow quite irate when they lacked the option to spend a night passing a bottle around a campfire. Aneni himself was not the biggest fan of drink, but Aravae could hold her ale, and the siblings –his favored term for Liliana and Vylan– enjoyed their partying. Lili had run out of her favorite spiced wine a few days prior and had made absolutely certain that he knew about it. With the aid of Vylan’s usual dramatics, it had grown quite annoying.

So, currently, the group rode towards a rather large city in the heart of the northwestern kingdom. Vylan and Liliana rode side-by-side, joking and teasing one another. Aravae was right behind him, her head held high and her features arranged into an expression deliberately devoid of all emotion. He’d told them little of the job they had, primarily because he knew many among them, such as Lili, who desired adventure and heroism far too much for her own good, would be disappointed by such a seemingly simple task. But, he reasoned, it paid well, and good pay was exactly what they needed.

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Aravae was worried. Well, more worried than usual. Aravae was always worried. She had tasked herself with watching over people who were effectively children to her, but she was out of supplies to do so. She needed bandages, she needed medicines. If anyone else here happened to hurt themselves doing something stupid, there was little she could do to help. The limits to her abilities were frustrating, but she had a small amount of coin left over, and, with the contribution of the others, hopefully she could afford a decent enough supply of medicine for this next outing.

Which made now, she supposed, the best time to collect. Nobody in the group seemed to particularly like having to contribute money to medical costs, but Aravae didn’t particularly think it fair that she spent her own funds on something that helped everyone. It was much the same as the food budget, she thought. So, she sped her horse up just a touch, to catch up with Aneni. Without a word, he dug a few coins from the pocket of his worn cloak and dropped them into her hand.

She then slowed and placed herself between Liliana and Vylan, interrupting their conversation. “Medicine and food, young ones.”

“How much?” Liliana questioned.

“However much you’ve got to pay towards it.”

With a nod, the two pulled several coins from various locations to add to the small pouch Aravae used to collect their contributions. Then, she moved over to ask the same of Morgan. “We’ll be in town soon. Medicine and food contributions, if you would. And requests if you’ve any.”