Title: Hayden
Description: *Approved*
Description: *Approved*
Altamira - October 22, 2007 07:00 PM (GMT)
Name: Hayden (uses the surname “Skadi” when in human settlements)
Age: Unknown
Race: Mountain sprite
Gender: Female
Hair: Dark, long, straight auburn locks, tied up in a high ponytail, with bangs clipped back by a simple silver barrette.
Eyes: A dark, slate gray.
Weight: 105 lbs
Height: 5’2”
Homeplace: Iron Cutlass Peak, Iron Cutlass Mountain Range, Altifaria, Terra (mountain, mountain range, continent, world)
Weapon: She carries no traditional weapons, but can craft whatever metallic weapon she knows the details of intimately enough to make (see skills.)
Armor: When in human settlements, Hayden wears a full-body suit of steel armor that she has crafted herself, complete with a helmet. When traveling the wilds of nature, however, she prefers to wear only her greaves and a Lamellar breastplate, finding that the rest of her gear weighs her down too much for her liking.
Strengths: For a female of her size, Hayden has impressive physical strength, and her finely-crafted armor affords her great defense. Her skills with metallurgy are delicately honed and of an expert level (once again, this shall be explained further in her skills.) Earth-based magic has little to no effect on her.
Weaknesses: Hayden lacks any mystical or magical skills aside from her abilities to draw metal from the earth and form it into weapons and other objects. She also is somewhat slow when wearing her armor, and although relatively strong, she is still weaker than anyone with a decent size advantage over her. Fire and lightning magics are also particularly effective against her.
Skills/Magic: Because of her bond with the mountains and earth, Hayden is capable of summoning up minerals and metals from the ground and crafting them into weapons, armor, etc. (as detailed later.) She may also communicate with her fellow mountain sprites without spoken words.
Metallurgy- Hayden, without any conscious effort, can draw metals and minerals from the earth and remove their impurities, manipulate them into alloys, and/or work them into forms with her desired properties.
Forge- With or without using her Metallurgy skill beforehand, the sprite may form any metal into weapons, armor, or other objects (such as keys, arrowheads, etc.) She must first know the details and measurements of the desired object before crafting them—and from there on, she simply needs to picture the item in her mind and let her hands move to manipulate the metal. As of now, the weapons she knows how to craft include swords, halberds, spears, daggers/knives, and axes.
Sprite Bond- When in serious danger, Hayden may use her last bit of strength to give a distress call to her fellow mountain sprites. Any within range to hear her plea for help come flying to her aid—but instead of attacking the source of the danger, they merely whisk Hayden away or heal any of her non-lethal wounds. The sprites will only rush to her if she is on her very last bit of energy, knowing when they are truly needed by their ability to sense her condition through their sisterly bond.
Appearance: Hayden has a dark, chocolate-colored skintone, with a willowy figure and an elegant and thin, yet beautiful and youthful face. She wears a silver bodice over a thin, almost transparent white blouse that seems to shimmer with dust from precious metals. On her lower body, she wears a pair of tight, silver capri pants that cut off just below the knee, with a flowing, white, pareu-like garment of the same fabric as her blouse over top. On her feet she wears simple silver sandals.
Pictures:
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5929/ha...colorvergv4.png
Old Pictures:
-http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5747/haydenzn8.png
Personality: True to her nature as a sprite, Hayden is peaceful and carefree when around others of her kind, and gleefully resigns herself to her instinctual behavior of playing games and beautifying her surroundings. She is dutiful in carrying out the orders of the Guardian Sprite, and unwaveringly trusts in the elder sprite’s judgment and insight. This humbleness and respectfulness of disposition led Hayden to be chosen as a lesser guardian when the sprites were instructed to leave their mountain home, and she carries out her tasks with great sense of purpose and dignity.
When around humans, the sprite feels threatened and constantly endangered to the point of slight paranoia—this fear being brought about after an attack a clan of humans launched on the last Guardian Sprite and his haven, when they killed the elder and destroyed his hallowed fountain. Her fear causes her to don a full-body suit of armor and helmet whenever she enters a human settlement, in order to protect herself and hide her unmistakable identity as a sprite.
While afraid of normal humans, Hayden is less inclined to be frightened of those with magical abilities, or other human-like creatures such as elves, for she finds them to be more sympathetic towards mystical beings like herself. Around these beings, she’ll be a little shy, but more open and playful than with the average human. Much of her conversations will be about nature or travel, or the differences she’s observed between different species; she’s very unfamiliar with human norms, despite all the wandering she’s done.
In battle, she’s precise and deliberate about attacking; she won’t charge headfirst into a battle until she’s decided on the proper weapons and armor to defend herself with. She’s never had to kill before, and so when her foes seem on the verge of death, she’s indecisive about whether or not to cease her attacks—life has a different value to a sprite who’s accustomed to peace and longevity.
Biography: Iron Cutlass Mountain Range.
Blinding white peaks swoop up to the clouds that perpetually hang overhead, barren of any traces of green; and yet still, in this frigid landscape, there bends and winds gurgling hot streams, and there scurries furry, energetic animals, suggesting that there is a warmness that resides in the very deepest depths of the towering rocks. The sprites that dwell upon these snowy slopes know that this heat, this fire that burns below the cool, placid surface, is the Iron Cutlass Volcano; a cauldron of super-heated magma just waiting to burst forth from its ice-rimmed mouth.
The sprites also know that this ever-present danger is also what has sustained them throughout all their generations; for without the volcano, there would never be that comforting touch of warmth in the earth and the currents of water, and without that, there would never be the necessities for life—not even the simple needs of a sprite.
When Hayden came to be, as sprites called it, since no one really understood how they were born, the Iron Cutlass Volcano had not erupted in centuries. It was never truly dormant, and magma still boiled within its core, but the sheer cold of the mountain range seemed to keep the scalding heat suppressed. The mountain sprites were mindful of this delicate balance, but remained at their home, living out their lives as normally as could be done; but on the other hand, the human settlement at the base of Iron Cutlass, ignorant of this threat, also continued their normal activities—and these activities consisted of mining deep into the mountains’ core for minerals and precious gems. Immediately, this had no effect on the volcano, but in the long-term, it was greatly upsetting the geological balance.
And so, after decades of this blissfully ignorant mining went on, the volcano finally erupted. Iron Cutlass Volcano belched a deluge of crimson lava that eradicated the landscape and burned the settlements, screaming its fury for what the humans had done to its mineral-rich heart.
Left in its wake was black, rich ash. The Guardian Sprite looked upon this, and knew what would be best; the surviving mountain sprites, so eager to return to their home, were instead sent away to each colonize a new mountain range, and in their place, she sent forest sprites to come and cultivate the land, blessing the new, nutrient-rich mountains with flora and fauna. Hayden, saddened to leave her home, but as dutiful as always, undertook this new task with zeal and obedience.
She travels the world now, searching for ways to make her new mountain an ideal place for the sprites and other beings to live in peace, and collecting ideas from the places she’s seen.
Age: Unknown
Race: Mountain sprite
Gender: Female
Hair: Dark, long, straight auburn locks, tied up in a high ponytail, with bangs clipped back by a simple silver barrette.
Eyes: A dark, slate gray.
Weight: 105 lbs
Height: 5’2”
Homeplace: Iron Cutlass Peak, Iron Cutlass Mountain Range, Altifaria, Terra (mountain, mountain range, continent, world)
Weapon: She carries no traditional weapons, but can craft whatever metallic weapon she knows the details of intimately enough to make (see skills.)
Armor: When in human settlements, Hayden wears a full-body suit of steel armor that she has crafted herself, complete with a helmet. When traveling the wilds of nature, however, she prefers to wear only her greaves and a Lamellar breastplate, finding that the rest of her gear weighs her down too much for her liking.
Strengths: For a female of her size, Hayden has impressive physical strength, and her finely-crafted armor affords her great defense. Her skills with metallurgy are delicately honed and of an expert level (once again, this shall be explained further in her skills.) Earth-based magic has little to no effect on her.
Weaknesses: Hayden lacks any mystical or magical skills aside from her abilities to draw metal from the earth and form it into weapons and other objects. She also is somewhat slow when wearing her armor, and although relatively strong, she is still weaker than anyone with a decent size advantage over her. Fire and lightning magics are also particularly effective against her.
Skills/Magic: Because of her bond with the mountains and earth, Hayden is capable of summoning up minerals and metals from the ground and crafting them into weapons, armor, etc. (as detailed later.) She may also communicate with her fellow mountain sprites without spoken words.
Metallurgy- Hayden, without any conscious effort, can draw metals and minerals from the earth and remove their impurities, manipulate them into alloys, and/or work them into forms with her desired properties.
Forge- With or without using her Metallurgy skill beforehand, the sprite may form any metal into weapons, armor, or other objects (such as keys, arrowheads, etc.) She must first know the details and measurements of the desired object before crafting them—and from there on, she simply needs to picture the item in her mind and let her hands move to manipulate the metal. As of now, the weapons she knows how to craft include swords, halberds, spears, daggers/knives, and axes.
Sprite Bond- When in serious danger, Hayden may use her last bit of strength to give a distress call to her fellow mountain sprites. Any within range to hear her plea for help come flying to her aid—but instead of attacking the source of the danger, they merely whisk Hayden away or heal any of her non-lethal wounds. The sprites will only rush to her if she is on her very last bit of energy, knowing when they are truly needed by their ability to sense her condition through their sisterly bond.
Appearance: Hayden has a dark, chocolate-colored skintone, with a willowy figure and an elegant and thin, yet beautiful and youthful face. She wears a silver bodice over a thin, almost transparent white blouse that seems to shimmer with dust from precious metals. On her lower body, she wears a pair of tight, silver capri pants that cut off just below the knee, with a flowing, white, pareu-like garment of the same fabric as her blouse over top. On her feet she wears simple silver sandals.
Pictures:
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5929/ha...colorvergv4.png
Old Pictures:
-http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5747/haydenzn8.png
Personality: True to her nature as a sprite, Hayden is peaceful and carefree when around others of her kind, and gleefully resigns herself to her instinctual behavior of playing games and beautifying her surroundings. She is dutiful in carrying out the orders of the Guardian Sprite, and unwaveringly trusts in the elder sprite’s judgment and insight. This humbleness and respectfulness of disposition led Hayden to be chosen as a lesser guardian when the sprites were instructed to leave their mountain home, and she carries out her tasks with great sense of purpose and dignity.
When around humans, the sprite feels threatened and constantly endangered to the point of slight paranoia—this fear being brought about after an attack a clan of humans launched on the last Guardian Sprite and his haven, when they killed the elder and destroyed his hallowed fountain. Her fear causes her to don a full-body suit of armor and helmet whenever she enters a human settlement, in order to protect herself and hide her unmistakable identity as a sprite.
While afraid of normal humans, Hayden is less inclined to be frightened of those with magical abilities, or other human-like creatures such as elves, for she finds them to be more sympathetic towards mystical beings like herself. Around these beings, she’ll be a little shy, but more open and playful than with the average human. Much of her conversations will be about nature or travel, or the differences she’s observed between different species; she’s very unfamiliar with human norms, despite all the wandering she’s done.
In battle, she’s precise and deliberate about attacking; she won’t charge headfirst into a battle until she’s decided on the proper weapons and armor to defend herself with. She’s never had to kill before, and so when her foes seem on the verge of death, she’s indecisive about whether or not to cease her attacks—life has a different value to a sprite who’s accustomed to peace and longevity.
Biography: Iron Cutlass Mountain Range.
Blinding white peaks swoop up to the clouds that perpetually hang overhead, barren of any traces of green; and yet still, in this frigid landscape, there bends and winds gurgling hot streams, and there scurries furry, energetic animals, suggesting that there is a warmness that resides in the very deepest depths of the towering rocks. The sprites that dwell upon these snowy slopes know that this heat, this fire that burns below the cool, placid surface, is the Iron Cutlass Volcano; a cauldron of super-heated magma just waiting to burst forth from its ice-rimmed mouth.
The sprites also know that this ever-present danger is also what has sustained them throughout all their generations; for without the volcano, there would never be that comforting touch of warmth in the earth and the currents of water, and without that, there would never be the necessities for life—not even the simple needs of a sprite.
When Hayden came to be, as sprites called it, since no one really understood how they were born, the Iron Cutlass Volcano had not erupted in centuries. It was never truly dormant, and magma still boiled within its core, but the sheer cold of the mountain range seemed to keep the scalding heat suppressed. The mountain sprites were mindful of this delicate balance, but remained at their home, living out their lives as normally as could be done; but on the other hand, the human settlement at the base of Iron Cutlass, ignorant of this threat, also continued their normal activities—and these activities consisted of mining deep into the mountains’ core for minerals and precious gems. Immediately, this had no effect on the volcano, but in the long-term, it was greatly upsetting the geological balance.
And so, after decades of this blissfully ignorant mining went on, the volcano finally erupted. Iron Cutlass Volcano belched a deluge of crimson lava that eradicated the landscape and burned the settlements, screaming its fury for what the humans had done to its mineral-rich heart.
Left in its wake was black, rich ash. The Guardian Sprite looked upon this, and knew what would be best; the surviving mountain sprites, so eager to return to their home, were instead sent away to each colonize a new mountain range, and in their place, she sent forest sprites to come and cultivate the land, blessing the new, nutrient-rich mountains with flora and fauna. Hayden, saddened to leave her home, but as dutiful as always, undertook this new task with zeal and obedience.
She travels the world now, searching for ways to make her new mountain an ideal place for the sprites and other beings to live in peace, and collecting ideas from the places she’s seen.
Kitsuné - October 23, 2007 06:39 PM (GMT)
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