Veatrix
04-30-08, 06:21 PM
NOTE:
The whole thing was edited for cohesion. Mostly aesthetic and grammatical corrections, but the more important ones will be coloured.
Basic Character Traits
Name: Veatrix Bane
Race: Human, with hints of Pharoas (Butterfly Elf)
Sex: Female
Age: 19, give or take a few months
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 95 lbs.
Hair Colour: Golden blonde
Eye Colour: Chestnut brown
Physical and Personality Characteristics
Appearance:
A frail-looking girl, with a tiny frame and a sickly aura about her. A very thin young woman, she barely reaches 100 lbs., and her shortness only accentuates her smallish, child-like appearance. Her eyes are unremarkable, a soft chestnut brown, an expression of helplessness. Her eyelashes are inhumanly thick, silver and glistening, almost four times the length of normal eyelashes. Her chestnut eyes are framed by a beautifully pale round face and smooth cheekbones, ended by a charming nose and lips that love to smile, albeit awkwardly. Always covered up are her scars from the past – the gnarled stumps on her shoulder blades of what should have been her wings. Never has anybody else, apart from her wretched town, has seen the would-be wings. Unbeknownst to her, the constant sweating of her shoulder blades signifies that her wings are eagerly trying to grow back, although their growth may take much time.
Personality:
Veatrix is a shy girl at heart, but since moving to Scara Brae, she has gained a significant amount of self-confidence. Nevertheless, she seeks refuge in books, particularly her mysterious Tome of Lestrange, and her newfound friends, the father-son duo Llewelyn and Lacey. Seemingly easy target for pick-pocketing and upfront robbery, her experience has taught her to fight hoodlums back. She puts up a fight if she really wanted to, as the spells she learned from the Tome of Lestrange can pull her out of tough situations. Powered by the fierce realization that the world is a cruel place, tempered by the death and danger she has experienced in Scara Brae, she travels Althanas with a cynical view of life.
Character Arsenal
Clothing: dark olive green dress (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=9637), cow hide shoes
Items: medium-sized satchel of water, voucher for one of Scara Brae’s best dry cleaners (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=9637), pair of purple fuzzy earmuffs (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=14761), bar of lavender soap (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=14761), Tome of Lestrange (see Character Special Abilities)
Character Special Abilities
Protego – A spell learned from the Tome of Lestrange. An invisible spherical barrier appears around Veatrix’s body, on her vocal command. The wall is thick enough to deflect physical attacks three times stronger than a regular human's and can hold off weak magical attacks. It can get stronger with practice, but as of now, lasts for five minutes.
Illumina – A spell learned from the Tome of Lestrange. Adorned with many uses, the spell can be a simple lighting spell, or a destructive light-based attack, effective with nocturnal beasts. It takes the form of a small light ball on Veatrix’s vocal command. The ball itself is 900 degrees Celsius and can severely burn victims, but Veatrix is unaffected by the heat. The ball can also be fashioned, on Veatrix’s mental command, into any shape or size, maintaining the same heat and lighting properties of the ball. The bigger the shape is made, the more heat is distributed around the surface, making a big weapon less effective.
Hiela – A spell learned from the Tome of Lestrange. For five minutes, Veatrix’s hands emit a stunning blue glow and make anything they touch turn to ice. Veatrix does not feel any coldness from her hands, and the ice effects do not work on her own body. Specifically, the temperature of her hands goes below 300 degrees Celsius, able to cause water to freeze upon physical contact. Veatrix can also produce ice dust, also 300 degrees Celsius below zero, a shaft of ice energy as a magical weapon.
Pharotongue – A natural talent, honed through years of practice in her backyard garden. Allows her to speak with butterflies in a strange, hissing language. Initially a dormant gene from Butterfly Elf heritage, the language was unearthed at around puberty.
Tome of Lestrange – Stolen from the Forbidden section in a small Corone library, the spell book is a mysterious piece of magical literature. Seemingly intelligent, the tome only allows the reader to read spells they are “worthy” of learning, though Veatrix is unaware of this. She only realizes that she can only read six pages of the book (title page, foreword, the four spells she learned), as the letters begin shuffling when she turns to other pages. She may be able to read more of the book if she becomes stronger.
Character Background and History
Relations:
Cassandra Bane, descendant of Queen Lilianese of the Butterfly Elves, mother to Veatrix Bane
Victor Bane, town barber, father to Veatrix Bane
Llewelyn Johns, Scara Brae peasant, father to Lacey and foster father to Veatrix Bane
Lacey Johns, Scara Brae peasant, son of Llewelyn and foster brother to Veatrix Bane
History: ((SHORTENED AND CONDENSED))
Born on an ordinary day to ordinary parents in an ordinary town, Veatrix Bane was supposed to be ordinary. Unfortunately, being born in a completely ordinary village, where there was no violence or famine or poverty, played to her utter disadvantage. Veatrix just wasn’t ordinary enough.
She was just like any other little girl. Clingy with their mothers, loving towards their fathers, did well in school, ate ravenously but did not gain weight, was tomboy-ish to a fault. The only difference is she was part-Butterfly Elf. Mocked and rejected while growing up, Veatrix was a troubled child.
Being a Butterfly Elf wasn’t the best thing to be living in Veatrix’s ordinary village. They believed that anything out of the ordinary was evil, as they were too conservative for their own good. Butterfly Elves weren’t different from any other elf, except they had an affinity toward butterflies. They grew beautiful butterfly wings, had lavish eyelashes, longer than any human’s, and could speak Pharotongue, the ancient language of the butterflies. They were a wonderful race, if only the village did not hunt down the only Butterfly Elf colony in Althanas existence. Had that colony been located somewhere, Butterfly Elves would still exist, but unfortunately, that colony lived right beside Veatrix’s ordinary village. After many screams of defiance, captive Elves and a forest fire or three, the whole race fell into extinction.
Veatrix’s father, Victor Bane the town barber, tried to be as patient as he could be with her growing wings, until Cassandra just replicated her past, and made it Veatrix’s painful memory. Giving her barrels of alcohol, Veatrix got drunker than… well, ever. Her parents cut her little wings off with jagged scissors amongst the blood, screams and shedding insect scales. She couldn’t remember a thing the next morning, but she felt a sharp pain exploding in her back every now and then. Sad, really, and nobody would know what her wings could have looked like. When Victor and Cassandra finally told her the story of her shoulder blade stumps, a few months after her 18th birthday, she left, unable to contain her anger.
Arriving at Scara Brae, Veatrix was taken in by Llewelyn and Lacey Johns, two peasants that she developed familial feelings for. She spent a few months in their company, living with them as a part of their family. Despite the new family she had acquired, her experiences in Scara Brae opened her eyes to the horrors of the world. Being exposed to debauchery, lust and prostitution, and death made Veatrix’s heart just a little colder and just a little harder.
So her story goes.
The whole thing was edited for cohesion. Mostly aesthetic and grammatical corrections, but the more important ones will be coloured.
Basic Character Traits
Name: Veatrix Bane
Race: Human, with hints of Pharoas (Butterfly Elf)
Sex: Female
Age: 19, give or take a few months
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 95 lbs.
Hair Colour: Golden blonde
Eye Colour: Chestnut brown
Physical and Personality Characteristics
Appearance:
A frail-looking girl, with a tiny frame and a sickly aura about her. A very thin young woman, she barely reaches 100 lbs., and her shortness only accentuates her smallish, child-like appearance. Her eyes are unremarkable, a soft chestnut brown, an expression of helplessness. Her eyelashes are inhumanly thick, silver and glistening, almost four times the length of normal eyelashes. Her chestnut eyes are framed by a beautifully pale round face and smooth cheekbones, ended by a charming nose and lips that love to smile, albeit awkwardly. Always covered up are her scars from the past – the gnarled stumps on her shoulder blades of what should have been her wings. Never has anybody else, apart from her wretched town, has seen the would-be wings. Unbeknownst to her, the constant sweating of her shoulder blades signifies that her wings are eagerly trying to grow back, although their growth may take much time.
Personality:
Veatrix is a shy girl at heart, but since moving to Scara Brae, she has gained a significant amount of self-confidence. Nevertheless, she seeks refuge in books, particularly her mysterious Tome of Lestrange, and her newfound friends, the father-son duo Llewelyn and Lacey. Seemingly easy target for pick-pocketing and upfront robbery, her experience has taught her to fight hoodlums back. She puts up a fight if she really wanted to, as the spells she learned from the Tome of Lestrange can pull her out of tough situations. Powered by the fierce realization that the world is a cruel place, tempered by the death and danger she has experienced in Scara Brae, she travels Althanas with a cynical view of life.
Character Arsenal
Clothing: dark olive green dress (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=9637), cow hide shoes
Items: medium-sized satchel of water, voucher for one of Scara Brae’s best dry cleaners (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=9637), pair of purple fuzzy earmuffs (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=14761), bar of lavender soap (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?t=14761), Tome of Lestrange (see Character Special Abilities)
Character Special Abilities
Protego – A spell learned from the Tome of Lestrange. An invisible spherical barrier appears around Veatrix’s body, on her vocal command. The wall is thick enough to deflect physical attacks three times stronger than a regular human's and can hold off weak magical attacks. It can get stronger with practice, but as of now, lasts for five minutes.
Illumina – A spell learned from the Tome of Lestrange. Adorned with many uses, the spell can be a simple lighting spell, or a destructive light-based attack, effective with nocturnal beasts. It takes the form of a small light ball on Veatrix’s vocal command. The ball itself is 900 degrees Celsius and can severely burn victims, but Veatrix is unaffected by the heat. The ball can also be fashioned, on Veatrix’s mental command, into any shape or size, maintaining the same heat and lighting properties of the ball. The bigger the shape is made, the more heat is distributed around the surface, making a big weapon less effective.
Hiela – A spell learned from the Tome of Lestrange. For five minutes, Veatrix’s hands emit a stunning blue glow and make anything they touch turn to ice. Veatrix does not feel any coldness from her hands, and the ice effects do not work on her own body. Specifically, the temperature of her hands goes below 300 degrees Celsius, able to cause water to freeze upon physical contact. Veatrix can also produce ice dust, also 300 degrees Celsius below zero, a shaft of ice energy as a magical weapon.
Pharotongue – A natural talent, honed through years of practice in her backyard garden. Allows her to speak with butterflies in a strange, hissing language. Initially a dormant gene from Butterfly Elf heritage, the language was unearthed at around puberty.
Tome of Lestrange – Stolen from the Forbidden section in a small Corone library, the spell book is a mysterious piece of magical literature. Seemingly intelligent, the tome only allows the reader to read spells they are “worthy” of learning, though Veatrix is unaware of this. She only realizes that she can only read six pages of the book (title page, foreword, the four spells she learned), as the letters begin shuffling when she turns to other pages. She may be able to read more of the book if she becomes stronger.
Character Background and History
Relations:
Cassandra Bane, descendant of Queen Lilianese of the Butterfly Elves, mother to Veatrix Bane
Victor Bane, town barber, father to Veatrix Bane
Llewelyn Johns, Scara Brae peasant, father to Lacey and foster father to Veatrix Bane
Lacey Johns, Scara Brae peasant, son of Llewelyn and foster brother to Veatrix Bane
History: ((SHORTENED AND CONDENSED))
Born on an ordinary day to ordinary parents in an ordinary town, Veatrix Bane was supposed to be ordinary. Unfortunately, being born in a completely ordinary village, where there was no violence or famine or poverty, played to her utter disadvantage. Veatrix just wasn’t ordinary enough.
She was just like any other little girl. Clingy with their mothers, loving towards their fathers, did well in school, ate ravenously but did not gain weight, was tomboy-ish to a fault. The only difference is she was part-Butterfly Elf. Mocked and rejected while growing up, Veatrix was a troubled child.
Being a Butterfly Elf wasn’t the best thing to be living in Veatrix’s ordinary village. They believed that anything out of the ordinary was evil, as they were too conservative for their own good. Butterfly Elves weren’t different from any other elf, except they had an affinity toward butterflies. They grew beautiful butterfly wings, had lavish eyelashes, longer than any human’s, and could speak Pharotongue, the ancient language of the butterflies. They were a wonderful race, if only the village did not hunt down the only Butterfly Elf colony in Althanas existence. Had that colony been located somewhere, Butterfly Elves would still exist, but unfortunately, that colony lived right beside Veatrix’s ordinary village. After many screams of defiance, captive Elves and a forest fire or three, the whole race fell into extinction.
Veatrix’s father, Victor Bane the town barber, tried to be as patient as he could be with her growing wings, until Cassandra just replicated her past, and made it Veatrix’s painful memory. Giving her barrels of alcohol, Veatrix got drunker than… well, ever. Her parents cut her little wings off with jagged scissors amongst the blood, screams and shedding insect scales. She couldn’t remember a thing the next morning, but she felt a sharp pain exploding in her back every now and then. Sad, really, and nobody would know what her wings could have looked like. When Victor and Cassandra finally told her the story of her shoulder blade stumps, a few months after her 18th birthday, she left, unable to contain her anger.
Arriving at Scara Brae, Veatrix was taken in by Llewelyn and Lacey Johns, two peasants that she developed familial feelings for. She spent a few months in their company, living with them as a part of their family. Despite the new family she had acquired, her experiences in Scara Brae opened her eyes to the horrors of the world. Being exposed to debauchery, lust and prostitution, and death made Veatrix’s heart just a little colder and just a little harder.
So her story goes.