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Kharia Na'amro
A child born in the gutter, raising herself to greatness, then being beaten down to nothing again. This was the story of Kharia Na'amro's life, a poor street rat who fought to escape her circumstances and change her fate, certain that she could change the world that was so grey and gloomy, only to realize that it was all for nothing in the end.
Appearance
When she was a Mage, Kharia's magic caused a noticeable passive effect on her appearance, purging toxins and removing any physical blemishes or marks. In addition to this, her hair was also a dazzling white, and her eyes had turned a deep electric blue. Being a woman who fought her way to her status as a Mage, she dressed proudly as one, bearing white and blue robes with a stylish straw hat to complete the sage image.
As a Vampire, her body has taken a more corpse-like turn. While she outwardly looks similar to before, her hair has returned to it's former brown, as did her eye. The other eye is a milky white, burned to nothing and leaving a leathery red burn area around it, cracked and still appearing fresh. Her skin has taken on an unnatural paleness and has thinned somewhat, giving the appearance of a normal, if somewhat sick, 29-year-old woman. No longer possessing magic, she swapped her mage attire for a black gambeson with purple lining and a simple Chokúto sword.
As a Vampire, her body has taken a more corpse-like turn. While she outwardly looks similar to before, her hair has returned to it's former brown, as did her eye. The other eye is a milky white, burned to nothing and leaving a leathery red burn area around it, cracked and still appearing fresh. Her skin has taken on an unnatural paleness and has thinned somewhat, giving the appearance of a normal, if somewhat sick, 29-year-old woman. No longer possessing magic, she swapped her mage attire for a black gambeson with purple lining and a simple Chokúto sword.
Skills and Abilities
Swordsmanship: Kharia practiced with sticks since she was a girl, and since then, she has come to favor the straight-edge Katana (or Chokúto) in combat, leading with an aggressive and savage combat style of fast slashes and lunging stabs. What it lacks in finesse, it makes up for in ferocity and pragmatism.
Linguistics: As someone that often had a book in her hand, Kharia has a working knowledge of the Elven, Dwarven, and Nagan languages (the latter being worse than the others due to the rarity of information surrounding them).
Gift of Vampirism: As a Vampire, Kharia possesses enhanced strength, speed, and senses. She is also immune to most forms of sickness and poison and no longer requires sleep (though still prefers to). However, this plague has also rendered her body functionally dead, which has an impact on her durability as any wounds that she sustains will not heal, staying open (unless stitched) and exposing the dead innards of her undead body. In addition, she no longer has a sense of taste or pain, being oblivious to injury unless she sees it or it is pointed out to her. She is not immune to sunlight either, the rays of the sun causing her skin to burn and her body to become incredibly saturated with a foul odor (the stench of death, as it were), so she can only move without inconvenience at night or when covered up.
Linguistics: As someone that often had a book in her hand, Kharia has a working knowledge of the Elven, Dwarven, and Nagan languages (the latter being worse than the others due to the rarity of information surrounding them).
Gift of Vampirism: As a Vampire, Kharia possesses enhanced strength, speed, and senses. She is also immune to most forms of sickness and poison and no longer requires sleep (though still prefers to). However, this plague has also rendered her body functionally dead, which has an impact on her durability as any wounds that she sustains will not heal, staying open (unless stitched) and exposing the dead innards of her undead body. In addition, she no longer has a sense of taste or pain, being oblivious to injury unless she sees it or it is pointed out to her. She is not immune to sunlight either, the rays of the sun causing her skin to burn and her body to become incredibly saturated with a foul odor (the stench of death, as it were), so she can only move without inconvenience at night or when covered up.
Biography & Lore
Born in the City of Ermion, Kharia knew only poverty growing up. Despite being the daughter of a fisherman and a tailor, she often only ate twice or three times a week as her parents needed to strike the delicate balance of feeding themselves and feeding their daughter. During the day, she would oft wander the streets watching people going to and fro, watching how the rich treated the poor like lesser and trash. This fostered a deep-seated hatred of nobility, a hatred that would endure into her teenage years.
Having no real prospects to speak of, Kharia's stubbornness drove her to visit the library every day, filling her mind with tomes of knowledge on linguistics, magic, swordplay, economics, spirituality, and much more. Raw knowledge gave her an edge over other children her age as she apprenticed to a Mage at 16 due to her already somewhat sizeable knowledge of magic for her age. Learning from them, she became a potent Magic user, specializing in lightning magic. From there, she became a spellsword, wandering Ermion looking for odd jobs to provide for her family. Although this helped greatly, her family was not long for this world; her Father was lost at sea during a storm, and her Mother died in bed after the stress of providing while bereaving made her ill.
With nothing tying her down anymore, Kharia wandered for a while, looking for wrongs to right and evildoers to slay, like a Knight Errant of the stories. She felt good doing it, but a part of her yearned to make a larger impact on the world. As time limped forward, the apathy of people and the continuing proliferation of evil in the world wore her down, until she was finally reduced to a depressed wreck living only for the ideals that had been thrown back in her face.
That came to it's head when she saved someone from being fed on by a Vampire, succeeding only in becoming its next meal. Either by design or by accident, she was not drained completely, becoming infected with the Vampiric Plague and becoming an eternal creature of the night, cursed with ceaseless hunger and a living death.
Now, she seeks to make the evil of the world suffer for what they did to her, one person at a time...
Having no real prospects to speak of, Kharia's stubbornness drove her to visit the library every day, filling her mind with tomes of knowledge on linguistics, magic, swordplay, economics, spirituality, and much more. Raw knowledge gave her an edge over other children her age as she apprenticed to a Mage at 16 due to her already somewhat sizeable knowledge of magic for her age. Learning from them, she became a potent Magic user, specializing in lightning magic. From there, she became a spellsword, wandering Ermion looking for odd jobs to provide for her family. Although this helped greatly, her family was not long for this world; her Father was lost at sea during a storm, and her Mother died in bed after the stress of providing while bereaving made her ill.
With nothing tying her down anymore, Kharia wandered for a while, looking for wrongs to right and evildoers to slay, like a Knight Errant of the stories. She felt good doing it, but a part of her yearned to make a larger impact on the world. As time limped forward, the apathy of people and the continuing proliferation of evil in the world wore her down, until she was finally reduced to a depressed wreck living only for the ideals that had been thrown back in her face.
That came to it's head when she saved someone from being fed on by a Vampire, succeeding only in becoming its next meal. Either by design or by accident, she was not drained completely, becoming infected with the Vampiric Plague and becoming an eternal creature of the night, cursed with ceaseless hunger and a living death.
Now, she seeks to make the evil of the world suffer for what they did to her, one person at a time...
