Philomel “Phi” Serkena van der Aart (Level Three Mid-level Update)
Doing this because I got a bit frustrated with Phi's "Minor Earth Magic" ability. I have not used it as yet. The whole idea is that it will be discovered in current thread An End And A Start with Elthas, but I have not as yet used it. So I am changing it to something more suitable to her fighting style, and I have specified more the powers of her Earth Sense. Also added her new armour and sword (link in Equipment).
Updates In Violet.
Name: Philomel “Phi” Serkena van der Aart
Age: 28
Race: faun
Hair Color: dark brown and violet (dyed)
Eye Color: grey
Height: 6’ 0”
Weight: 156 kg
Occupation: assassin-whore
Personality:
Thinks of herself as a tough woman, ignoring what others might say that a female faun is only useful in terms of looking pretty and mating. Is a little sassy, sometimes a bitch, with a foul tongue at times, but can also be quiet when she needs to be, knowing many tricks of the prostitution trade that her mother taught her. Is pretty nifty with a sword, and trying to teach herself with knife-throwing skills. Has been hired on occasion as a spy into a whore house - is happy to do most things as long as it ends in sex or blood. Unless it is rape, then she’ll cut the throat of the bastard. She has a strong sense of independence, and believes that, through endevour, she can achieve anything.
Appearance:
Goat legs, with cloven hooves in chestnut fur. From hips up human in form with large breasts. Two black curling ram-like horns sprouting from her forehead. Has dreadlocks of dark brown and violet that braid together at the back. Leather bodice holding breasts in place, or trying to, under a shoulder guard over her right shoulder. Is rather naked with bare belly and bare arms, with a tattoo of an ash tree sprouting from her pelvic area up and curving around her belly button. Also has a back sheath for her large sword. Has a belt with a draping embroidered loin cloth to hide her intimate anatomy.
Skills:
Tracking skills, and survival.
Swordsmanship is moderate expert level.
Very very good at sexual intercourse, as an exotic option for the more daring.
Also head butting due to her large ram-like horns.
Abilities:
Speed: excelled speed when running, to the speed of a deer bounding away from predators, based on an African springbok - short bursts of up to 50km/h and leaping up to 4 m through the air in a single curve (31mph and 13 feet respectively)
Earth Sense: Close connection to nature and the earth - when in an area of earth, or where dust is close by she can sense up to ten metres if there are figures and so on, or disturbances around her. These are very minor and will not tell the number of beings, or what they are, just that there is movement or changes to the earth (includes only dust and soil, nothing else and definitely not usuable in water). Includes also the ability to sense a tree, and feel a connection to it, even tell if it has fresh sap, and if it is healthy or not, due to the earth intake. Basic sixth sense.
Scent: A very sharp sense of smell - even blood and at times fear.
Earth Dart: Philomel is able to form a splattering of darts, like small arrows or the spikes of a creature that fly off in various directions the dirt around her with her mind. This consists of up to five darts, and is useable three times a battle with at least one post break between each one. Each has the damage of only a wasp sting, or a blow-dart, but they are more or less used as a distraction than anything. Upon contact and damage they turn back to dirt. Philomel can use these by gathering the dirt around her, and send it at a target within twenty metres of her, but no more. They will go off course if further than anything.
Familiar: Veridian - a fox formed earth-spirit. Can be used in combat - his weapons include (and are limited to) a single bite per post about as damaging as a terrier-sized dog's, and using his claws for scratching that are equivolent to a cat's.
Equipment:
Steel shoulder guard (right shoulder)
Steel banded-armour breastplate
Steel gauntlets
Mythril hand a half sword with deer antler handle
(Above three items obtained here.)
Scabbard in light wood and steel
Steel keris dagger
Steel throwing dagger
Familiars:
Small earth-spirit in the shape of a fox called Veridian. Recently the two have made a telepathic connection. (Not as words as such yet but in images and scents, displaying what the other can see and a vague sense of intention and so on, through feelings etc.)
History:
Her mother Lacey was the only faun in a whore house in a thriving city, Radasanth, and was seen one night by a faun iron merchant, Enna, from the mountains when she was offering her trade. He fell in lustiness over her, mostly because it was rare to see one of his own kind in a city, and hired her for the night. He ended up coming back a few months later and doing the same thing, and then again and again over a few years, in shorter and shorter intervals. Eventually he proposed marriage to her, for sake of apparently being “in love” with her. Lacey was very reluctant for a while, but once he promised her a house and money she agreed and they had a short and small, but official marriage. She got him to buy a house in the city, and even though he still had to go to the mountains for his trade she was content for a while.
After a month or so she got bored, and started inviting in men, going back to her old trade whilst Enna was away. She fell pregnant one night when he was around, and had the baby when he was away with one of her customers, thankfully a man of healing, present. She named the baby Philomel after a word meaning “nightingale” because she was born at night, and presented her with a certain pride when Enna returned. Enna did not react, though, how she expected, he seemed more disappointed than overjoyed, so Lacey took to turning cold. Things became a turn for the worse when Philomel was three years of age and Lacey found out Enna had had another family in the mountains all along.
She left Enna with Philomel and returned to the brothel. She was a good mother and took time out most days to raise her daughter well, though perhaps what she taught her was not typical. By the age of twelve Philomel was an excellent lover and plotting revenge on her father. She started earning money herself two years later, then finally got a human warrior who she offered her services for in exchange for learning the basics of swordplay. The warrior paused, but accepted her offer and he became her teacher, so that over numerous visits in the next four years, at the age of eighteen Philomel could use a sword well. Later that year she left with him when he offered to take her on a hunt into the mountains, where he continued to teach her fighting and tracking, and she tried to find out more about her father. What she gleaned was very little, but has gone back at various points to find out more. During one of these expeditions she found herself becoming mesmerised by a scent she found, and followed it until she came to an ash tree. When there, she touched the bark and was instantly able to detect the lifespan and events of the tree, when their had been storms, what creatures nested in the branches and so on. From that tree there came a small noise and an earth-spirit emerged, a small fox who she later named Veridian and has not had the want to stop following her since.
She later killed the warrior when she found him raping her own mother, and fed his body, ironically, to nightingales and crows, piece by piece.
She remained in Radasanth for some time. Her pimp, Mort, threatened her mother's life, and so along with a wizard Philomel brought about his death. She took her mother to safety, and then sent her to an island resort. After this, and finally independent and free, Philomel sought work. In doing so she befriended two people - first the half-imp telepath boy Felix and the monk-come-underworld-genius troll Mister Draak. She is currently staying with Mister Draak, in his hall where he acts as the monestry's cook and herbalist. He sends her on various jobs and part-time she works as an independant private whore.
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