Nayeli
04-20-10, 11:46 AM
In my experience, there are no creatures more detestable than the goblins. They are vile, base, putrid stinking creatures without a single redeeming quality. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to associate with such contemptible creatures for even a second. – Gregor Stayenvsky, Royal Xenopologist
Yeah, well, humans ain’t all so fragrant either. – Innari Chief Kalrard, of Clan Chochiminguwa
Name: Nayeli Ominotago
Race: Innari (what humans call Goblins)
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Skin Color: Pale Green
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Height/Weight: 4’10”, 89 lbs
Languages: Tradespeak, Innari
Class: Arcane Archer
Appearance
Nayeli is very small and slender, with little muscle or fat. While she is fit and healthy, she has somewhat of a skinny, bony appearance, as do most Innari. Her skin is smooth and a pale green color, almost like a frog’s. Proportional to the rest of her body, she has long arms and legs, long fingers and toes, and a small torso, which only serves to emphasize her scrawny appearance.
Her facial features are considered pretty by most other Innari, but to a human she seems ugly—although maybe not quite as ugly as most of her kind. Still, she could never hope to pass as a human. Her face is almost perfectly round, with the exception of exceptionally large ears jutting up and out of the sides of her head like those of a bat. Her eyes are also huge, at least twice the size of a human’s, and round. Their pupils are large and a deep shade of brown. Her teeth are regular, but slightly yellowed. In the center of her face is a small snub-nose. Her hair is black and typically tied back, with beads braided into it.
Typically, Nayeli wears clothes made from the skins of animals in Brokenthorn Forest. She wears a fringed shirt and pants made of deerskin, which are plain but functional. Leather moccasins protect her feet from water or sharp stones and branches littered on the forest ground. For decoration, she wears a number of necklaces with a variety of different baubles—from shells, to round stones and feathers.
Personality
Nayeli is brimming with sarcasm and sass. She has no respect for authority of any sort whatsoever, follows no laws but her own, and views the highest of kings and queens to be her equal. That isn’t to say that she can’t have respect for people—she does—but only if they earn it. Simply having a fancy title (or, say, a legion of armed guards at your disposal…) won’t earn you her respect.
While the Innari are stereotyped as evil by humans, and indeed some are, Nayeli is not. She doesn’t take pleasure out of cruelty, or go out of her way to make life difficult for others. In fact, if someone is in need, she is as likely to be empathetic or kind as any human would be. She does look out for herself and her people first, but she also has something of a moral code (albeit a strange one). While she has quite a temper and enjoys fighting, she doesn’t seek out violence for violence’s sake. She’s impulsive and wild and chaotic, but evil she is not.
She is indeed intelligent (more so than the average goblin or human), but more than that she is clever and tricky. Rarely, however, does she plan anything in advance. She is highly unpredictable. Frequently she acts on whims or instinct, and her mind is generally as fickle as a springtime wind.
She dislikes humans, but can tolerate them and interact appropriately when necessary. However, she has an irrational hatred for all elves and half-elves and cannot possibly work together with them, unless absolutely forced to. She finds them to be pompous, obnoxious, and arrogant without exception. On top of that, everything always comes so easily to the elves. They have magic, they have bows, they have good looks, and they float through life on a whim and a giggle. On the other hand, the Innari are forced to work day in and day out, and all they get in return is dirt and more dirt, and disrespect from the other races. It just isn’t fair.
Combat Skills
Archery: Nayeli is above average when it comes to skill with the bow, as compared to a typical archer in an army. She is a talented and experienced archer with sharp eyes and deft hands.
Dagger Use: Nayeli is below average when it comes to use of the dagger in melee combat, as compared to the typical soldier or adventurer. While she is more effective than a person with no combat experience at all, and she knows a few tricks, hand-to-hand combat is not her forte.
Nayeli has no experience or training with any other weapon, and therefore cannot use them with much more skill than a peasant with no combat experience whatsoever.
Arcane Archery
Born with some amount of magical potential, Nayeli has only recently begun to hone and focus her innate magical talent to be useful in some form. She never had any teacher, and so what magic she does have is self-taught. At the moment her abilities are fairly limited, but with practice and training she could become an accomplished magician. She combines her skills with bow and magic to produce a unique skill known as arcane archery. The spells and talents she currently has developed are listed below:
Arcane Fire: Nayeli can focus her will to enchant arrows with a purple magical fire. These arrows act like fire arrows, but are lit with her mind. They are not hot for her to touch, but they will burn enemies or set flammable objects alight. This witchfire can be put out with water or by typical methods, but it is slightly harder to extinguish than normal flames. She can only enchant one arrow out of every five that she uses.
Non-Combat Skills
Fletching: Given enough time and the right materials, Nayeli can make her own arrows. With a hunting knife and some wood she can make arrow-shafts, and with a handful of feathers she can add fletching to those shafts.
Arrow-heads, however, are a different story. She cannot forge or smith them, so she has learned to make them magically. Given a small rock, she can magically form it into the proper shape, and then harden it with witchfire until it has the strength of iron.
Fletching is a long and difficult process, and to make a full quiver of arrows would take her a few days of nothing but fletching. The arrows she makes are below the quality of those she could buy, and so it is generally easier for her to simply restock on arrows at a store. However, if she must, she has the option to craft her own.
Human/Goblin Diplomacy: For a goblin, Nayeli knows a surprising amount about human culture and social interactions. She was trained from birth to be a diplomat between her people and the humans, although she never went into that occupation. If she desires (or rather, if she must), she can act fairly well-mannered and sociable around humans. However, she has very little respect for human culture or society as a whole, and therefore rarely feels the need to conform to their rules.
Singing: It seems almost bizarre, but Nayeli has a fairly good natural voice when it comes to singing. She never sings in Tradespeak—only in her native tongue—but when she does sing her voice is exotic and melodious. She only sings when she’s alone, though, and wouldn’t ever be interested in performing in front of a crowd. When compared to other musicians and singers, she could be said to be average at singing. Very few goblins have good voices at all, and so this is a prized quality among them.
Weaknesses
Frailty: Nayeli’s size, gender, and race all give her a disadvantage when it comes to physical strength. She is only about 70% as strong as the average human, and she only has about half as much endurance. This means that she can’t lift very heavy objects, use large weapons, or run or fight for a long time without tiring.
Weapons
Yew Recurve Bow: Nayeli’s primary weapon is a yew bow that she crafted herself. The crafting of the bow was a long and arduous process part of her coming-of-age as a warrior. The bow is made of yew, with a string of boar sinew treated with beeswax. It is small for a bow, and the tips curve away when it is unstrung (making it a recurve bow) which allows her greater accuracy and ease of use, at the cost of range or stealth. Strange runes and symbols are carved up and down the bow. These shallow sigils she cut with a hunting knife when she made the bow. She wasn’t sure why she did it, but something felt right, and she followed her instincts. The runes glow with purple light when she uses her magic.
Iron Dagger: At her hip, Nayeli keeps a small iron dagger that would be more like a knife in the hands of a larger person. The dagger is her last resort for self defense; she only uses it if she must.
Armor
As of now, Nayeli wears no armor, and is therefore highly vulnerable in combat of any sort.
Special Equipment
In addition to typical adventuring gear, Nayeli has some unique items that she carries with her. She may obtain more of these as she goes on further quests and adventures.
Hunting Knife: A small knife that Nayeli carries for a variety of purposes, from cooking food to crafting arrow-shafts. Useless in combat. The handle is intricately engraved with a pattern of oak leaves; it was given to her by her father.
History
Some time ago, in the heart of Concordia Forest, in the land of Corone, a great Innari Chieftain named Ominotago (of the Boar tribe), and a powerful Innari Shamanness called Chosovi (of the Bluebird tribe) were married in one of the greatest political unions goblinkind has ever seen. Their union was foretold to bring great power and prosperity to the Innari. While the golden age that was expected never came, at least one thing did come out of the marriage: Nayeli.
Nayeli was trained from birth in all the arts befitting the daughter of an Innari Chieftain. She was trained in combat (excelling especially with the bow), and in diplomacy. Her father, Ominotago, was a great believer in the idea that only peaceful relations with humans could bring prosperity. While other goblins (including Nayeli herself) doubt him on that, she was taught to speak Tradespeak, and even sent to spend some time with a human family in order to learn their customs.
As her mother was a Shamanness, Nayeli was also trained in magic. Chosovi could tell that her daughter had great magical potential, but found herself frustrated at every turn. Nayeli seemed unable to learn even the simplest of spells and charms. Chosovi tried to teach her daughter to commune with nature, or speak with animals, or grow plants and herbs, but Nayeli could learn none of it. The nature-magic of goblinkind was foreign to her, for whatever reason. A different sort of magic, however, began to present itself. Nayeli showed some innate aptitude for the arcane arts—the sort of magic that humans use. Ominotago recommended that perhaps she be sent to a mage’s Guild a human city (an unprecedented move) but Chosovi refused to go along with it. She would not allow her daughter to live with the filthy humans and learn their unnatural magic.
Nayeli was forced to teach herself and develop her own powers. Eventually she grew out of childhood and through her teenage years, and became a young adult skilled enough to make her own way in the world. While her position in the tribe was secure, she found herself longing for a more interesting life outside the comfort and protection life as a Chieftain’s daughter presented her. She went to her father and requested a boon: that she be allowed to travel throughout Concordia as she wished for a period of five years, to adventure and gain experience in the outside world. At the end of that period, she would return and take up her duties to the tribe once more.
Chieftain Ominotago was hesitant to allow his daughter to go into danger, but he accepted, knowing that she might gain from the experience anyway. Nayeli thanked him and left for the nearest human settlement: a little town called Underwood.
All I've changed is that I moved Nayeli's homeland from Scara Brae, to Concordia (specifically, just outside Underwood). No changes to skills or anything but History. The purpose of this update is just to make it easier for me to start threads with new players in the Underwood forum. Hope that's alright! ~Ella
Yeah, well, humans ain’t all so fragrant either. – Innari Chief Kalrard, of Clan Chochiminguwa
Name: Nayeli Ominotago
Race: Innari (what humans call Goblins)
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Skin Color: Pale Green
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Height/Weight: 4’10”, 89 lbs
Languages: Tradespeak, Innari
Class: Arcane Archer
Appearance
Nayeli is very small and slender, with little muscle or fat. While she is fit and healthy, she has somewhat of a skinny, bony appearance, as do most Innari. Her skin is smooth and a pale green color, almost like a frog’s. Proportional to the rest of her body, she has long arms and legs, long fingers and toes, and a small torso, which only serves to emphasize her scrawny appearance.
Her facial features are considered pretty by most other Innari, but to a human she seems ugly—although maybe not quite as ugly as most of her kind. Still, she could never hope to pass as a human. Her face is almost perfectly round, with the exception of exceptionally large ears jutting up and out of the sides of her head like those of a bat. Her eyes are also huge, at least twice the size of a human’s, and round. Their pupils are large and a deep shade of brown. Her teeth are regular, but slightly yellowed. In the center of her face is a small snub-nose. Her hair is black and typically tied back, with beads braided into it.
Typically, Nayeli wears clothes made from the skins of animals in Brokenthorn Forest. She wears a fringed shirt and pants made of deerskin, which are plain but functional. Leather moccasins protect her feet from water or sharp stones and branches littered on the forest ground. For decoration, she wears a number of necklaces with a variety of different baubles—from shells, to round stones and feathers.
Personality
Nayeli is brimming with sarcasm and sass. She has no respect for authority of any sort whatsoever, follows no laws but her own, and views the highest of kings and queens to be her equal. That isn’t to say that she can’t have respect for people—she does—but only if they earn it. Simply having a fancy title (or, say, a legion of armed guards at your disposal…) won’t earn you her respect.
While the Innari are stereotyped as evil by humans, and indeed some are, Nayeli is not. She doesn’t take pleasure out of cruelty, or go out of her way to make life difficult for others. In fact, if someone is in need, she is as likely to be empathetic or kind as any human would be. She does look out for herself and her people first, but she also has something of a moral code (albeit a strange one). While she has quite a temper and enjoys fighting, she doesn’t seek out violence for violence’s sake. She’s impulsive and wild and chaotic, but evil she is not.
She is indeed intelligent (more so than the average goblin or human), but more than that she is clever and tricky. Rarely, however, does she plan anything in advance. She is highly unpredictable. Frequently she acts on whims or instinct, and her mind is generally as fickle as a springtime wind.
She dislikes humans, but can tolerate them and interact appropriately when necessary. However, she has an irrational hatred for all elves and half-elves and cannot possibly work together with them, unless absolutely forced to. She finds them to be pompous, obnoxious, and arrogant without exception. On top of that, everything always comes so easily to the elves. They have magic, they have bows, they have good looks, and they float through life on a whim and a giggle. On the other hand, the Innari are forced to work day in and day out, and all they get in return is dirt and more dirt, and disrespect from the other races. It just isn’t fair.
Combat Skills
Archery: Nayeli is above average when it comes to skill with the bow, as compared to a typical archer in an army. She is a talented and experienced archer with sharp eyes and deft hands.
Dagger Use: Nayeli is below average when it comes to use of the dagger in melee combat, as compared to the typical soldier or adventurer. While she is more effective than a person with no combat experience at all, and she knows a few tricks, hand-to-hand combat is not her forte.
Nayeli has no experience or training with any other weapon, and therefore cannot use them with much more skill than a peasant with no combat experience whatsoever.
Arcane Archery
Born with some amount of magical potential, Nayeli has only recently begun to hone and focus her innate magical talent to be useful in some form. She never had any teacher, and so what magic she does have is self-taught. At the moment her abilities are fairly limited, but with practice and training she could become an accomplished magician. She combines her skills with bow and magic to produce a unique skill known as arcane archery. The spells and talents she currently has developed are listed below:
Arcane Fire: Nayeli can focus her will to enchant arrows with a purple magical fire. These arrows act like fire arrows, but are lit with her mind. They are not hot for her to touch, but they will burn enemies or set flammable objects alight. This witchfire can be put out with water or by typical methods, but it is slightly harder to extinguish than normal flames. She can only enchant one arrow out of every five that she uses.
Non-Combat Skills
Fletching: Given enough time and the right materials, Nayeli can make her own arrows. With a hunting knife and some wood she can make arrow-shafts, and with a handful of feathers she can add fletching to those shafts.
Arrow-heads, however, are a different story. She cannot forge or smith them, so she has learned to make them magically. Given a small rock, she can magically form it into the proper shape, and then harden it with witchfire until it has the strength of iron.
Fletching is a long and difficult process, and to make a full quiver of arrows would take her a few days of nothing but fletching. The arrows she makes are below the quality of those she could buy, and so it is generally easier for her to simply restock on arrows at a store. However, if she must, she has the option to craft her own.
Human/Goblin Diplomacy: For a goblin, Nayeli knows a surprising amount about human culture and social interactions. She was trained from birth to be a diplomat between her people and the humans, although she never went into that occupation. If she desires (or rather, if she must), she can act fairly well-mannered and sociable around humans. However, she has very little respect for human culture or society as a whole, and therefore rarely feels the need to conform to their rules.
Singing: It seems almost bizarre, but Nayeli has a fairly good natural voice when it comes to singing. She never sings in Tradespeak—only in her native tongue—but when she does sing her voice is exotic and melodious. She only sings when she’s alone, though, and wouldn’t ever be interested in performing in front of a crowd. When compared to other musicians and singers, she could be said to be average at singing. Very few goblins have good voices at all, and so this is a prized quality among them.
Weaknesses
Frailty: Nayeli’s size, gender, and race all give her a disadvantage when it comes to physical strength. She is only about 70% as strong as the average human, and she only has about half as much endurance. This means that she can’t lift very heavy objects, use large weapons, or run or fight for a long time without tiring.
Weapons
Yew Recurve Bow: Nayeli’s primary weapon is a yew bow that she crafted herself. The crafting of the bow was a long and arduous process part of her coming-of-age as a warrior. The bow is made of yew, with a string of boar sinew treated with beeswax. It is small for a bow, and the tips curve away when it is unstrung (making it a recurve bow) which allows her greater accuracy and ease of use, at the cost of range or stealth. Strange runes and symbols are carved up and down the bow. These shallow sigils she cut with a hunting knife when she made the bow. She wasn’t sure why she did it, but something felt right, and she followed her instincts. The runes glow with purple light when she uses her magic.
Iron Dagger: At her hip, Nayeli keeps a small iron dagger that would be more like a knife in the hands of a larger person. The dagger is her last resort for self defense; she only uses it if she must.
Armor
As of now, Nayeli wears no armor, and is therefore highly vulnerable in combat of any sort.
Special Equipment
In addition to typical adventuring gear, Nayeli has some unique items that she carries with her. She may obtain more of these as she goes on further quests and adventures.
Hunting Knife: A small knife that Nayeli carries for a variety of purposes, from cooking food to crafting arrow-shafts. Useless in combat. The handle is intricately engraved with a pattern of oak leaves; it was given to her by her father.
History
Some time ago, in the heart of Concordia Forest, in the land of Corone, a great Innari Chieftain named Ominotago (of the Boar tribe), and a powerful Innari Shamanness called Chosovi (of the Bluebird tribe) were married in one of the greatest political unions goblinkind has ever seen. Their union was foretold to bring great power and prosperity to the Innari. While the golden age that was expected never came, at least one thing did come out of the marriage: Nayeli.
Nayeli was trained from birth in all the arts befitting the daughter of an Innari Chieftain. She was trained in combat (excelling especially with the bow), and in diplomacy. Her father, Ominotago, was a great believer in the idea that only peaceful relations with humans could bring prosperity. While other goblins (including Nayeli herself) doubt him on that, she was taught to speak Tradespeak, and even sent to spend some time with a human family in order to learn their customs.
As her mother was a Shamanness, Nayeli was also trained in magic. Chosovi could tell that her daughter had great magical potential, but found herself frustrated at every turn. Nayeli seemed unable to learn even the simplest of spells and charms. Chosovi tried to teach her daughter to commune with nature, or speak with animals, or grow plants and herbs, but Nayeli could learn none of it. The nature-magic of goblinkind was foreign to her, for whatever reason. A different sort of magic, however, began to present itself. Nayeli showed some innate aptitude for the arcane arts—the sort of magic that humans use. Ominotago recommended that perhaps she be sent to a mage’s Guild a human city (an unprecedented move) but Chosovi refused to go along with it. She would not allow her daughter to live with the filthy humans and learn their unnatural magic.
Nayeli was forced to teach herself and develop her own powers. Eventually she grew out of childhood and through her teenage years, and became a young adult skilled enough to make her own way in the world. While her position in the tribe was secure, she found herself longing for a more interesting life outside the comfort and protection life as a Chieftain’s daughter presented her. She went to her father and requested a boon: that she be allowed to travel throughout Concordia as she wished for a period of five years, to adventure and gain experience in the outside world. At the end of that period, she would return and take up her duties to the tribe once more.
Chieftain Ominotago was hesitant to allow his daughter to go into danger, but he accepted, knowing that she might gain from the experience anyway. Nayeli thanked him and left for the nearest human settlement: a little town called Underwood.
All I've changed is that I moved Nayeli's homeland from Scara Brae, to Concordia (specifically, just outside Underwood). No changes to skills or anything but History. The purpose of this update is just to make it easier for me to start threads with new players in the Underwood forum. Hope that's alright! ~Ella