Lillith
05-29-11, 06:31 AM
Name: Lillith Kazumi
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Nationality: Akashiman (Appears Scara Braen)
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 128llbs
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour: Black
Occupation: Actress, Diplomat
Title: Lady
Alignment: Chaotic Good
2472
History/Background: Long ago, a sister was born out of wedlock, and into a life of exile. As a young daughter of Akashiman nobles, the Sensei Heiro and the enigmatic Azumi, Lady of Scrolls, Lillith’s future was sealed the day she was conceived, and she was sent to the city of Scara Brae aged 12 after a life of near servitude and bondage to the family household she assumed she loved so much. She was adopted by the Arleen family, a middle class aristocratic household living in the Docklands with ties to the merchant guild and various associations with political power houses across the city. There, she learnt the ways of womanhood in the wider world, and was taught by a matron and mistress the ways of Akashiman nobility, alongside the traditional steam addled affairs of her new home state.
She became the proverbial Geisha, only bound in goggles, coarser fabric and more world weary song. At the age of sixteen, at her debut ball, she met a red headed woman by the name of Ruby La Roux; instantly they struck a chord, and struck several bottles of champagne with the same gusto that would become their accustomed approach to virtually all circumstances. It would be six months later that Lillith was initiated into the Tantalum, and given the rightful attention, love and family she had deserved all along.
Whilst many would suggest that Lillith is forever in Ruby’s shadow, it is technically the other way around. Lillith is the calming cogitation and the voice of reason in the enigmatic duo. Wherever and whenever Ruby strays, she is sure to direct her back onto the right path. Jealousy and hope exists between them, and the bond they share has crafted their personalities as if they were true sisters – ask them over the last five years and they will feign any attempt to call their relationship into doubt as fallacy. As time has gone by and they have endured more together, the bond has only become stronger, and stronger, and stronger still.
She became virtually indistinguishable from any other lady of Scara Brae under Ruby’s watchful eye, and soon the ‘pale skinned foreign child’ of the stiff inner circles of the noble houses became the story of yesteryear and vanished from the radar. Whilst keeping up appearances as the ‘sister’ of Ruby, she maintained her dual lifestyle and was relatively unharmed by the growing transgressions of Lucian Lahore until a brief and bitter encounter in the Mausoleum beneath the Gregory household, where her Aria abilities awoke beneath the shadowy scowl of the Dark Bard himself.
Ever since, she has found a new love and re-learnt the geisha art, music, melody, etiquette and lifestyle have all reformed in her mind and she has become more like her true self again. Whilst Ruby is truly a woman of her people, Lillith has become a woman of hers, and she brings to bear the tools of the ancient ways against the Tantalum’s foe. In the last year, she has fallen for gentlemen she has been courting in the noble households, a man by the name of Willard Samson – a pleasant, well-travelled man who has diplomatic ties with Akashima and understands the traditions, boundaries and customs of the rainy mountaintops.
Lillith has sheathed her tanto and strapped her ample bosoms down for the time being, and forgotten the ills of her past to focus on two things, and two things alone. Firstly, her engagement, and soon to be marriage is most important. The planning has taken months, and within three, they are to be married in the Lei-Sheri temple in the cultural quarter of Scara Brae. The wedding shall be on the first high day of summer, and the flock of white doves that shall be released as a peace offering for their tempest union shall pearl the skies…or so they hope.
Second is the application of Lillith’s skills, newly burgeoning abilities and hate for Lucian for all his sins to the war against the troupe’s enemy. In the revelation of the last year, Duffy, Ruby and Blank all learnt of the thousand ways in which Lucian has crafted their lives, the ways in which he has drawn them all in sorrow together under a false premise – his only aim is to crush them, and his only fear, that they shall overcome the trails he could not. Whilst Lucian planted a seed of lust and loathing in her parent’s hearts, and made the Kami’s song and the Oni’s roar nothing more than distant melodies in her ribcage, Lillith is clawing back her nationality and her identity bit by bit by bit. She shall not be the seamstress, the singer, the charlatan and whore of the stage anymore – one way of another, she shall become a woman once more, and the sakura shall fall over her and her husband as they take back the life they nearly lost to doubt.
History Level One:
All the members of the troupe have undergone trials and tribulations in their long lives. Lillith, though a new addition to the family is no exception. From her idyllic days as the dutiful sister of Ruby La Roux, when she learnt On Drinking Tea With Friends (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21284-On-Drinking-Tea-With-Friends-(Solo)/page2) to the past lives in Akashima, where she learnt the hard way what it meant to be one of the <Ushinatta Josei> (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21403-Ushinatta-Josei-(Solo)), Lillith has come into her own.
Until she died. Twice. First at her own wedding, no less, and then torn from the steppes of Salvar as a little girl to come fleeting back into the throng as Little Miss Monocle (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21779-Little-Miss-Monocle-(Closed)&p=182806#post182806), reborn a sister of Scara Brae proper and once more estranged from the culture she thought she had reconnected to. Though she thinks the troupe are Dancing With Themselves (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?22189-Dancing-With-Ourselves-(Closed)), she has taken it upon herself with Lucian gone to bridge the bond between her new and old lives, having fought a Greater Oni in the Akashiman wilds (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?22018-In-Her-Web-She-s-Caught-(Solo)), caught in the jurugumo's web to be given the curse of hindsight about her past. What she will find in her Tenpuru (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21406-Tenpuru-(Solo)&highlight=tenpuru) now she travels back to Akashima with blank by her side, few can know...but it is a journey the sister of the southlands must take.
Personality: Calculated, bashful and perhaps cold, Lillith is an austere and degenerate woman on the path to scorn much of the time, and joyful and playful and perhaps manic at others. Her calm and collected persona when in company, masqueraded by etiquette is all but flawless, and the seething and fiery persona that lies beneath is well hidden and carefully controlled.
She can seem brash and snappy to those who do not know her, but those who do still fear her. Without questioning her, one cannot truly begin to understand the dry wit and the sarcastic barrages which sometimes erupt from her stiff upper lip. She is every bit an enigma amongst the usually passionate and melancholic theatre troupe as the fusion of steam-punk and Akashiman garb she wears. All of this negativity however is balanced with a loving and passionate person who knows when trust is between two people, that she will never betray them or be betrayed in return. She will fulfil her promises, complete her obligations and lend an ear or mouth to err caution when need be. She is every bit the thoroughly modern woman she has been groomed to be, and ever dutiful to her soon to be husband, even if her hand strays to a tanto to slay villains in the dark, or her voice straddles truth as well as the thousand lies of the stage.
Skills:
The Aria: All members of the Tantalum, and thus, all disciples of the Thayne Tantalus have a distinct and unique connection to The Aria. How such a connection manifests is dependent on the individual, and the unique genus and personality that individual possesses. One can be a powerful warrior, drawing on the impetus to defend the weak from the historic characters of the literary world; another can pluck songs from the heavens sung on distant planets. Lillith, on the other hand, draws her talents from her strong national identity, and the connection she shares with her home, Akashima. If ever Lillith’s connection to Akashima or her lifestyle changes, so too will the strength and manifestation of the aspects of Akashiman life she manifests as skills.
The Geisha: Lillith can summon the musical instruments that a geisha would otherwise be talented with. Typically, this allows her to create a ghostly image of a Shamisen and play it as if it were real. Such is her ability to learn, she grows in skill when near the other members of the troupe, so the details below increase to adept when performing alongside the troupe, and decrease to universal average when alone.
• Perform: Above Average
• Dance: Above Average
• Singing: Above Average
• Musician: Adept (Akashiman) Above Average (Scara Brae)
The Shogun: Lillith has an archaic ability to deliver mandate, trade offer and ultimatum. She has a headstrong approach to disaster, and can organise evacuations, emergencies and large scale events with the emperor’s dignity and the Shogun’s command.
• Speech Craft: Above Average
• Logistics: Above Average
• Barter: Adept
The Shinobi: Lillith is a trained and skilled Assassin, drawing on the traditional techniques of the shinobi and ninja from the recesses of the Aria and the Akashiman folklore that resides in the depths of the silver sea. She cannot wear armour of any sort, nor wield any other weapon at all under any circumstances, except those akin to the tools of the Shinobi.
• Tanto & Kunai Combat: Above Average
• Sneak: Average
• Climbing: Average
• Acrobatics: Average
The Sister: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21406-Tenpuru-(Solo)&highlight=tenpuru) Lillith and Ruby are so alike in thinking, and such is Ruby’s presence in Lillith’s life, that they have begun to share memories and thoughts and emotions telepathically, as if their minds were one. These skills represent the long years studying Scara Brae life under The Crimson Mistress’ wing, and the bond they have developed in that time.
• Housekeeping: Average
• Sewing: Average
• Calligraphy: Average
• Scara Brae Lore: Above Average
• Akashiman Lore: Above Average
The Spirit Warder: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?22018-In-Her-Web-She-s-Caught-(Solo)) Lillith has been cursed by the spirit of one of the Greater Oni of Akashima, a powerful succubus spider daemon known as a jurugumo’s Mistress. This affords her with the desire to relive her past life as a Spirit Warder. The strength of this taint is still weak, and it has afforded her with some unique abilities that will ultimately test her as a Spirit Warder. These are represented by some of the abilities listed in the ability section, but it will require great fortitude to overcome and great accordance with Spirit Warder Traditions to remove this poison from her heart when it grows in strength.
• Knowledge (Kami): Average
• Knowledge (Oni): Average
• Knowledge (Religious): Below Average
• Knowledge (Thayne): Below Average
Abilities:
• Dexterity: X1.2%
• Infravision: 20ft
• Detect Spirits: 20ft
• Weak Against Magic: (Spirit Or Light Element)
• Immune to Natural Poisons
• Minor Empathic Telepathy: (With Ruby Only)
Equipment:
The Tantalus Menagerie: Lillith has access to the many hundreds of props, books and costumes that are available in the Prima Vista. She has access to basic food stuffs, water, cleaning facilities and the like in the troupe’s home, and in exchange for this basic supply of cheap red wine, cheaper tricks and cheaper one liner, she must sacrifice 10%; of all gold she might earn in threads.
Tanto & Kunai: Lillith owns two steel tanto and two steel kunai, as well as a simple rope to thread them together or to tie them to a limb to wield as a short-ranged weapon.
Kitsune Mask: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21616-The-Fox-And-The-Fan) A white porcelain mask of a Kitsune, a fox kami, given to Lillith before she left for Akashima by Duffy. It features red stripes and a tough red silk tie, but has no other properties asides decorative/disguise.
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Nationality: Akashiman (Appears Scara Braen)
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 128llbs
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour: Black
Occupation: Actress, Diplomat
Title: Lady
Alignment: Chaotic Good
2472
History/Background: Long ago, a sister was born out of wedlock, and into a life of exile. As a young daughter of Akashiman nobles, the Sensei Heiro and the enigmatic Azumi, Lady of Scrolls, Lillith’s future was sealed the day she was conceived, and she was sent to the city of Scara Brae aged 12 after a life of near servitude and bondage to the family household she assumed she loved so much. She was adopted by the Arleen family, a middle class aristocratic household living in the Docklands with ties to the merchant guild and various associations with political power houses across the city. There, she learnt the ways of womanhood in the wider world, and was taught by a matron and mistress the ways of Akashiman nobility, alongside the traditional steam addled affairs of her new home state.
She became the proverbial Geisha, only bound in goggles, coarser fabric and more world weary song. At the age of sixteen, at her debut ball, she met a red headed woman by the name of Ruby La Roux; instantly they struck a chord, and struck several bottles of champagne with the same gusto that would become their accustomed approach to virtually all circumstances. It would be six months later that Lillith was initiated into the Tantalum, and given the rightful attention, love and family she had deserved all along.
Whilst many would suggest that Lillith is forever in Ruby’s shadow, it is technically the other way around. Lillith is the calming cogitation and the voice of reason in the enigmatic duo. Wherever and whenever Ruby strays, she is sure to direct her back onto the right path. Jealousy and hope exists between them, and the bond they share has crafted their personalities as if they were true sisters – ask them over the last five years and they will feign any attempt to call their relationship into doubt as fallacy. As time has gone by and they have endured more together, the bond has only become stronger, and stronger, and stronger still.
She became virtually indistinguishable from any other lady of Scara Brae under Ruby’s watchful eye, and soon the ‘pale skinned foreign child’ of the stiff inner circles of the noble houses became the story of yesteryear and vanished from the radar. Whilst keeping up appearances as the ‘sister’ of Ruby, she maintained her dual lifestyle and was relatively unharmed by the growing transgressions of Lucian Lahore until a brief and bitter encounter in the Mausoleum beneath the Gregory household, where her Aria abilities awoke beneath the shadowy scowl of the Dark Bard himself.
Ever since, she has found a new love and re-learnt the geisha art, music, melody, etiquette and lifestyle have all reformed in her mind and she has become more like her true self again. Whilst Ruby is truly a woman of her people, Lillith has become a woman of hers, and she brings to bear the tools of the ancient ways against the Tantalum’s foe. In the last year, she has fallen for gentlemen she has been courting in the noble households, a man by the name of Willard Samson – a pleasant, well-travelled man who has diplomatic ties with Akashima and understands the traditions, boundaries and customs of the rainy mountaintops.
Lillith has sheathed her tanto and strapped her ample bosoms down for the time being, and forgotten the ills of her past to focus on two things, and two things alone. Firstly, her engagement, and soon to be marriage is most important. The planning has taken months, and within three, they are to be married in the Lei-Sheri temple in the cultural quarter of Scara Brae. The wedding shall be on the first high day of summer, and the flock of white doves that shall be released as a peace offering for their tempest union shall pearl the skies…or so they hope.
Second is the application of Lillith’s skills, newly burgeoning abilities and hate for Lucian for all his sins to the war against the troupe’s enemy. In the revelation of the last year, Duffy, Ruby and Blank all learnt of the thousand ways in which Lucian has crafted their lives, the ways in which he has drawn them all in sorrow together under a false premise – his only aim is to crush them, and his only fear, that they shall overcome the trails he could not. Whilst Lucian planted a seed of lust and loathing in her parent’s hearts, and made the Kami’s song and the Oni’s roar nothing more than distant melodies in her ribcage, Lillith is clawing back her nationality and her identity bit by bit by bit. She shall not be the seamstress, the singer, the charlatan and whore of the stage anymore – one way of another, she shall become a woman once more, and the sakura shall fall over her and her husband as they take back the life they nearly lost to doubt.
History Level One:
All the members of the troupe have undergone trials and tribulations in their long lives. Lillith, though a new addition to the family is no exception. From her idyllic days as the dutiful sister of Ruby La Roux, when she learnt On Drinking Tea With Friends (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21284-On-Drinking-Tea-With-Friends-(Solo)/page2) to the past lives in Akashima, where she learnt the hard way what it meant to be one of the <Ushinatta Josei> (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21403-Ushinatta-Josei-(Solo)), Lillith has come into her own.
Until she died. Twice. First at her own wedding, no less, and then torn from the steppes of Salvar as a little girl to come fleeting back into the throng as Little Miss Monocle (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21779-Little-Miss-Monocle-(Closed)&p=182806#post182806), reborn a sister of Scara Brae proper and once more estranged from the culture she thought she had reconnected to. Though she thinks the troupe are Dancing With Themselves (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?22189-Dancing-With-Ourselves-(Closed)), she has taken it upon herself with Lucian gone to bridge the bond between her new and old lives, having fought a Greater Oni in the Akashiman wilds (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?22018-In-Her-Web-She-s-Caught-(Solo)), caught in the jurugumo's web to be given the curse of hindsight about her past. What she will find in her Tenpuru (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21406-Tenpuru-(Solo)&highlight=tenpuru) now she travels back to Akashima with blank by her side, few can know...but it is a journey the sister of the southlands must take.
Personality: Calculated, bashful and perhaps cold, Lillith is an austere and degenerate woman on the path to scorn much of the time, and joyful and playful and perhaps manic at others. Her calm and collected persona when in company, masqueraded by etiquette is all but flawless, and the seething and fiery persona that lies beneath is well hidden and carefully controlled.
She can seem brash and snappy to those who do not know her, but those who do still fear her. Without questioning her, one cannot truly begin to understand the dry wit and the sarcastic barrages which sometimes erupt from her stiff upper lip. She is every bit an enigma amongst the usually passionate and melancholic theatre troupe as the fusion of steam-punk and Akashiman garb she wears. All of this negativity however is balanced with a loving and passionate person who knows when trust is between two people, that she will never betray them or be betrayed in return. She will fulfil her promises, complete her obligations and lend an ear or mouth to err caution when need be. She is every bit the thoroughly modern woman she has been groomed to be, and ever dutiful to her soon to be husband, even if her hand strays to a tanto to slay villains in the dark, or her voice straddles truth as well as the thousand lies of the stage.
Skills:
The Aria: All members of the Tantalum, and thus, all disciples of the Thayne Tantalus have a distinct and unique connection to The Aria. How such a connection manifests is dependent on the individual, and the unique genus and personality that individual possesses. One can be a powerful warrior, drawing on the impetus to defend the weak from the historic characters of the literary world; another can pluck songs from the heavens sung on distant planets. Lillith, on the other hand, draws her talents from her strong national identity, and the connection she shares with her home, Akashima. If ever Lillith’s connection to Akashima or her lifestyle changes, so too will the strength and manifestation of the aspects of Akashiman life she manifests as skills.
The Geisha: Lillith can summon the musical instruments that a geisha would otherwise be talented with. Typically, this allows her to create a ghostly image of a Shamisen and play it as if it were real. Such is her ability to learn, she grows in skill when near the other members of the troupe, so the details below increase to adept when performing alongside the troupe, and decrease to universal average when alone.
• Perform: Above Average
• Dance: Above Average
• Singing: Above Average
• Musician: Adept (Akashiman) Above Average (Scara Brae)
The Shogun: Lillith has an archaic ability to deliver mandate, trade offer and ultimatum. She has a headstrong approach to disaster, and can organise evacuations, emergencies and large scale events with the emperor’s dignity and the Shogun’s command.
• Speech Craft: Above Average
• Logistics: Above Average
• Barter: Adept
The Shinobi: Lillith is a trained and skilled Assassin, drawing on the traditional techniques of the shinobi and ninja from the recesses of the Aria and the Akashiman folklore that resides in the depths of the silver sea. She cannot wear armour of any sort, nor wield any other weapon at all under any circumstances, except those akin to the tools of the Shinobi.
• Tanto & Kunai Combat: Above Average
• Sneak: Average
• Climbing: Average
• Acrobatics: Average
The Sister: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21406-Tenpuru-(Solo)&highlight=tenpuru) Lillith and Ruby are so alike in thinking, and such is Ruby’s presence in Lillith’s life, that they have begun to share memories and thoughts and emotions telepathically, as if their minds were one. These skills represent the long years studying Scara Brae life under The Crimson Mistress’ wing, and the bond they have developed in that time.
• Housekeeping: Average
• Sewing: Average
• Calligraphy: Average
• Scara Brae Lore: Above Average
• Akashiman Lore: Above Average
The Spirit Warder: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?22018-In-Her-Web-She-s-Caught-(Solo)) Lillith has been cursed by the spirit of one of the Greater Oni of Akashima, a powerful succubus spider daemon known as a jurugumo’s Mistress. This affords her with the desire to relive her past life as a Spirit Warder. The strength of this taint is still weak, and it has afforded her with some unique abilities that will ultimately test her as a Spirit Warder. These are represented by some of the abilities listed in the ability section, but it will require great fortitude to overcome and great accordance with Spirit Warder Traditions to remove this poison from her heart when it grows in strength.
• Knowledge (Kami): Average
• Knowledge (Oni): Average
• Knowledge (Religious): Below Average
• Knowledge (Thayne): Below Average
Abilities:
• Dexterity: X1.2%
• Infravision: 20ft
• Detect Spirits: 20ft
• Weak Against Magic: (Spirit Or Light Element)
• Immune to Natural Poisons
• Minor Empathic Telepathy: (With Ruby Only)
Equipment:
The Tantalus Menagerie: Lillith has access to the many hundreds of props, books and costumes that are available in the Prima Vista. She has access to basic food stuffs, water, cleaning facilities and the like in the troupe’s home, and in exchange for this basic supply of cheap red wine, cheaper tricks and cheaper one liner, she must sacrifice 10%; of all gold she might earn in threads.
Tanto & Kunai: Lillith owns two steel tanto and two steel kunai, as well as a simple rope to thread them together or to tie them to a limb to wield as a short-ranged weapon.
Kitsune Mask: (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?21616-The-Fox-And-The-Fan) A white porcelain mask of a Kitsune, a fox kami, given to Lillith before she left for Akashima by Duffy. It features red stripes and a tough red silk tie, but has no other properties asides decorative/disguise.