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Althanas Invitational Tournament Arena
A woman walked into the registration office. Her eyes covered in a blood red bandana, a black cloak and hood draped over her figure, concealing much of her appearance from direct sight. She stepped up to whatever counter there was before her and removed the hood from her head, revealing her long dark hair and her defined features to the clerk taking the entries for the tournament.
She leaned on the staff she used to support herself, tapping it against the floor and furniture as she walked. Yet even though she appeared to be blind, she walked with confidence into this unknown place and did not bump into any furniture or other people present.
"I am here for the tournament. Can we hurry this up please? I hate portal travel and I've already been waiting far too long."
Her voice sounded demanding. Callara was tired. When the call came for champions to fight in the tournament on some god forsaken other world, she had a hard time believing it at first. Her carefully laid out plans put on hold to compete against a bunch of half wit morons in combat for an unknown prize? Hardly worth the effort.
Yet, in the back of her mind, a voice called for blood. Her mind always called for blood. As mistress of the Broken Blade Arena in Roque, she had witnessed many a fight, drawing on the energies released from the blood shed to feed her own mystical powers. She had to wonder then, with this grand tournament coming to pass, what kind of power she would gain if she fed on the useless saps coming to stand in front of her. She wielded no weapons but the mind she had been born with, cursed with, and blessed with. She moved matter and energy and even the blood of those around her with skill and terrible determination. So why not try her hand at this fight? Even if she did not make it to the final round, the energy released from combat would fuel her for tides to come. Her return to the city of Roque d'Ancourt would then be all the more terrible...
Character sheet taken directly from Tazlure. Please comment on changes neccesary in PM.
Name: Callara Connarial
Gender: Female
Race: Achadhiel (Half Elf)
Religion: Aurelius
Age: 20
Height: 5'9''
Weight: 132
Occupation: none
Place of origin: Kislovan in the world of Tazlure
Current home: Roque d'Ancourt in the world of Tazlure
Physical Description:
Callara is a rather tall, slender young woman. Her adhiel features are offset against a rather tanned skin and dark hair and eyes. Born from a human mother and adhiel father, Callara takes more after her mother. Her bone structure being somewhat less refined and her hair the dark colour of her mother's, grown long and kept most commonly in a ponytail which drops down to about halfway down her back.
She dresses in a mixture of blacks and reds, ever since taking on the path of Blood Magick. Also as an act of rebellion against the conservative lifestyle she felt forced into by her parents aswell as her aunt and uncle with whom she stayed for a few months while in the city of Roque d'Ancourt.
Personality & Quirks:
Callara was always the quiet and contemplative one. As half of identical twins, she and her sister Trina are two sides of a coin entirely. Where Trina is wild and rash, Callara is quiet and patient. Where Trina is open and naieve, Callara is more reserved towards others and not easy to get to know.
Her behaviour has been altered drastically after the introduction of a Blood Spirit to her spirit, which she accepted during the Samheen of 1224, shortly after arriving in the city of Roque d'Ancourt. The spirit has made her far less demure and more volatile. She is quick to react and does not empathise with people as she might have before. Though she still prides herself on her abilities to analyse things logically, this is either done very scientifically, or purely while taking into account her own points of view.
The recent addition of temporary amnesia after her battle with the Mindcrafter Raphael Terrel gave the Blood Spirit even more reign over her mind, altering her personality without her knowing beyond repair.
Background:
Callara is the eldest daughter of Tagon and Belle Connarial. Her father a modestly wealthy merchant from the isle of Kislovan, her mother born from the Tannen merchant family in King's Court. Her parents met when Tagon was on a business venture in King's Court, courted and married several yahren later and moved to the island of Kislovan with the approval of both families.
Most of her family, her father and sister in particular, never made Callara feel like she completely fit in. Her achadhiel nature adding to that feeling, they never ceased to wonder why Callara was the way she was. Her father a follower of K'tan, he always wondered why Callara could never fully share in his enthusiasm for their families religion and customs, as most adhiel and achadhiel on the island.
She did however grow up in a nurturing home, mostly protected from her sister's rash behaviour towards her when they were younger by their mother, only in the last few yahren has she come to realize there were other things about herself which made her question her heritage and faith. She noticed how somehow, when she got upset or frightened, every time something near her would break. A glass or a bowl, one time she even thought a bowl of fruit got flung across the room because a man was getting a little too flirtatious.
Up until recently however she always pegged it for coincidence, but people noticed it too and began to shun her, talk behind her back. She could hear them sometimes, even when they weren't around. This made her look into Aurelius, and also into her "condition" as she describes it. But she has yet to discover the true meaning to her "gift"
As a result of the rumors flying around Kislovan, her father and mother decided it would be best if Callara travel to the Western Kingdom to stay with her aunt and uncle (from her mother's side) in the city of Roque d'Ancourt. Her uncle Steven, being her mother's brother and current head of the Tannen household, her aunt Kristen. Having fled the destruction of King's Court they now reside in their summer residence in Roque with their son Brent and daughter Julienne. Julienne or "Jules" is roughly Callara's age whereas Brent is older and following in his father's footsteps to become a tradeguild council member.
More recent developments
Callara has taken to the path set before her driven by anger and vengeance. After accepting the Blood Spirit she sought for a while to tame it, keep it under control and use it to power her magick. After having been scorned by Motley during a talk in which she asked him and Alexandrya for their help, while at the same time warning them about the spirit within her, she chose to accept it completely rather than fight it, and fell to the darker side of magick which she has since been honing in the seclusion of the Summer Palace.
Mundane Skills:
Animal Empathy - Callara has, in her youth, spent some time around the wildlife of her home island Kislovan. Now a skill which lies neglected and dormant, in her past she enjoyed watching animals and coercing them into approaching her.
Con Artist - Callara lies. She tricks and deceives, combined with her mindcrafting abilities, to get people to do exactly what she wants and making them believe they want it as much as she does.
Conversation - Well versed in the art of the word, Callara is quite a good speaker, and can easily talk down someone during a discussion or a debate.
Herbal Lore [Kislovan] - She has some knowledge of the plantlife of her home island. She knows the basics of which plants are poisonous and which are safe to ingest, aswell as a crude understanding of medicinal purposes for common variety plantlife.
Leadership - Organizer of arena events, in recent times Callara has taken up leadership over an organisation. Though it does not come naturally to her, combined with her Mindcrafting this skill allows her to guide the most untrained minds into doing her bidding. Those of a stronger will and intellect will find it somewhat easier to resist her suggestive thoughts.
Literacy [Human] - She is versed in reading and writing the common tongue. Callara can read the alphabet properly, but is not well schooled in the finer arts of narration and reading aloud. After turning blind she has not read anything since, and left the writing to her underlings. Recently however has she taken up the idea of writing in blood, since that particular substance is quite visible to her unseeing eyes.
Logical Analysis - Everything is logic to Callara. Once she approached everything without emotion, because emotions made her feel pain. Then, logic would dictate her actions, and still she uses this frame of mind to make most of her decisions. However, the blood that lives within her often has it's own way of instilling a sense of direction to her logic.
Murder - She kills. She kills with her mind, not with any weapons. She kills and she does not care. Watching someone die, the last breath leaving their mouth as they gaze up at her unseeing eyes does nothing to her emotionally. She feeds on their energy as it leaves them on their dieing breath, and with it feeding her own powers, making them greater with every droplet of blood spilled.
Native Craft [Dark Sarcasm] - Callara has a very cold sense of humor. The world has hardened her and as such she takes to everything with a sarcasm that is thought by many to be quite offensive and hurtful. She however cares not and takes pleasure in knowing she tends to shock people with her cold approach to matters others would find disgruntling.
Persuade - Persuasion is something Callara has taken a shining to. She has, over time, developed a myriad of ways to get what she wants. From cookies from the cookie jar when she was a child, to getting into that one room the guards wouldn't let anyone else into.
Playing Musical Instrument [Panspipes] - A latent ability, Callara has learned to play the flute she has been given by her father as a child. She is not very skilled at it, and does not actively practice the flute anymore.
Public Speaking - Where she lacks the ability to properly narrate a written story, she is all the better at thinking up elaborate speeches to impress the crowds. In the arena she runs, this is often a means of enhancing the show. In day to day life she usually keeps this skill to herself, staying her words for just the opportune moment, where they will have the most impact.
Resolve - Callara's mind is a strong one. Where others would falter under pressure or stress, even under magickal invasion of the mind, Callara's mind is a fortress of resolve, a bastion into which only the most skilled of Mentalists can penetrate. And even then they often wish they hadn't.
Inner Calm - The ability to remain calm or to regain calmness quickly after or during a period or turmoil. Through meditation this allows Callara to center her mind and focus on the task at hand, even when faced with for instance a lot of outside sounds, a busy inn or a marketplace. These can all be phased out to focus on what needs be done, blocking interferance.
Rote Memorization - A gift from birth, Callara has exceptional memory and does not often forget what she sees, hears and reads.
Magickal Skills:
Manipulation of Energy: [Mindcraft] - Mindcrafting is a forbidden art in the world of Tazlure. Once a school existed that taught this dark way to students, bringing them in from all over the world shortly after their skill was discovered. Now, people that find themselves gifted with the skill of the Bardic Voice are on their own. As was Callara who, during youth was cursed with an uncontrolled telekinetic ability, which flared up on her emotions, causing wanton destruction around her. After her arrival in the city of Roque d'Ancourt, and the absorption of a powerful Blood Spirit, she had taken to learning this ability, controlling it. Now, she edges on mastery as one of the few Mindcrafters in the realm of Tazlure. She commands the movement of elements and objects at will and has a particular affinity with the substance of blood, due to the spirit within her. As such, she wields this power mostly to destroy or control the flow of blood in people's bodies, having aptly learned to crush hearts, stop the flow of blood or speed it up inside of people's bodies. Recently has she taken to the study of puppeteering, controlling the movements of people's bodies by steering the blood within them. Her destructive mind however, aswell as the spirit within her don't often allow people to live to endure this torment...
Aura Perception [Mindcraft] - Callara has always been able to see the energies of people, their emotions and even some base thoughts visible to her. After the absorption of the spirit, she gained the vision of blood aswell, being able to sense blood everywhere, not just in her line of sight. This caused her in due time to go insane from overflow of sensory input, upon which her mentor took away her mundane eyesight. He then taught her to see the energies of the world, giving her her sight back on a more magickal level. It is no longer limited to the ability to see the energies of people, but extends to that of objects and in fact the world around her as a whole.
Blood Magick [Mindcraft] - The blood magick Callara was given, comes from a malignant spirit of the Aether which resides within her. As part of her spirit, it grants her a powerful boost to her Mindcrafting powers, ever hungering for the destruction and carnage that follows death. This drive to kill has had a profound impact on Callara's state of mind, turning her from a once docile girl into a vengeful borderline psychopath. Drawing her own blood, or spilling the blood of others releases this empowering energy, causing her telekinetic abilities to soar.
Communicating with Spirits [Mindcraft] - Mostly directed at the spirit within her, she can on a base level communicate with it, though it is more often the spirit which communicates with her than the other way around, always influencing her thoughts with the intent to do as much damage to the world that entrapped it as possible.
Dark Emotion [Destruction] - The ability to channel emotions into magick is only given to a select few. Mindcrafters can learn to direct any emotion into their magick, Callara has managed to learn how to destroy. All emotions that direct a person towards destruction, rage, anger, hatred, she channels into her magick. Wether felt by her or by others, she feeds upon the energy this emotion brings and directs it into the destruction she wreaks with her mind.
Inner Sight - The ability to judge internal injuries and even the presence of poison in one's bloodstream. Callara's blood magick sometimes calls on her to cut herself, drawing blood when no other is available. Inner Sight allows her to keep the damage under control, and direct magickal energy towards it to repair the damage.
Inventory:
Female Clothing, Wealthy - Callara's choice of dress has changed during her stay in Roque. Dressing blacks, pants, tunic and cloak, covered with red accents and a wide sash around her waist. Where once she preferred more color, now the aspects of her magick are reflected in her clothing.
Gloves, Silk lining
Cloak, Silk, unlined
Necklace, Silver - A locket. A gift from her mother this is the only trinket Callara has kept aside from her flute and the clasp she also wears, remembering her of her heritage. The locket is small and bears no apparent markings on the front. On the back, her name is engraved in the adhiel language.
Crested Clasp, Silver - A clasp keeping the cloak she wears closed, crafted from silver bearing the crest of the house of Connarial; A tower with a string of vines wrapped around it.
Mortar and Pestle
Knife, curved - Not as much a weapon as it is a tool. To allow her blood magick to gain full effect, blood must be spilled. If this does not happen outside of Callara, she draws her own blood to gain the full horrible potential the blood magick grants her.
Waterskin
Backpack, Leather
Quill
Parchment,
Ink
Satchel, Leather
Shoes, Leather
Ribbons
Comb, Brass
Purse, Leather
Perfume
Panspipes (A wooden pipe, crafted and given to her by her father for her 15th birthday)
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