Shirava Yazaltari
Shirava Yazaltari is a ruthless assassin for hire currently operating out of Vel Stratholm, a city under the protection of Vel Anir. Her weapons of choice are a pair of shortswords, though she is also equipped with several throwing daggers and a set of leather armor to protect herself.
Appearance
Shirava normally wears a bulky cloak over her armor and gangly body. Her usually bloodshot amber eyes and notably pale skin are indicators that she spends more time awake during the night than the day. She often wears dark hoods, lets her lifeless dark hair fall across her face, and usually walks with her head down all in an effort to make herself harder to identify. When forced into conversations, she can usually muster a fairly convincing fake smile, but she otherwise has a serious and shifty look on her face.
Skills and Abilities
- Fighting (2/5, Capable): Shirava knows how to use her weapons to kill her targets and could also use them to defend herself as needed, but she has yet to deal with a target that had a chance to defend themselves and would likely struggle to do so.
- Stealth (3/5, Intermediate): Shirava primarily relies on her abilities to sneak into places and get close to her targets to take them out before anyone knows she is there. She can easily slip past a group of average people, but very likely wouldn't be able to sneak into something like a castle.
- Acrobatics (2/5, Capable): Shirava is capable of quickly getting over small obstacles like walls or second story windows in order to approach from unexpected angles, but is otherwise not too notably dexterous.
- Perception (2/5, Capable): Shirava is capable of studying a target in order to learn when the best time to strike them is and she is constantly on the lookout for threats, but her inexperience means she doesn't always know what to look out for.
- Stealth (3/5, Intermediate): Shirava primarily relies on her abilities to sneak into places and get close to her targets to take them out before anyone knows she is there. She can easily slip past a group of average people, but very likely wouldn't be able to sneak into something like a castle.
- Acrobatics (2/5, Capable): Shirava is capable of quickly getting over small obstacles like walls or second story windows in order to approach from unexpected angles, but is otherwise not too notably dexterous.
- Perception (2/5, Capable): Shirava is capable of studying a target in order to learn when the best time to strike them is and she is constantly on the lookout for threats, but her inexperience means she doesn't always know what to look out for.
Personality
When she isn't operating as a killer for hire, Shirava is nothing if not agreeable. She has seen what the law enforcement of Vel Anir does to those who commit crimes far less egregious than her own, so she wants to avoid bringing any attention to herself. Accordingly, she tries to make any conversation as short as possible while still remaining as friendly as she can be. While her straightforward yet warm personality might make her seem confident, she sees every person she meets as a possible threat who could turn her over to the executioners or just end her themselves. This means she is used to working alone, but more recently has begun seeing chances to work with other fighters as opportunities to hone her skills and potentially expand her network. She doesn't see the world as a fair place, and is amused by anyone who tries to be honorable or fair themselves, though she keeps these opinions to herself.
Biography & Lore
Shirava was born to reasonably wealthy and locally influential parents, though their power is practically irrelevant as far as the full scale of Vel Anir is concerned. She grew up watching the violence caused between religious factions, the violence inflicted upon her parents and the other people of Vel Stratholm by the Houses, and the violence resulting from the Revolution.While her parents thought it was best to keep their heads down throughout the different cycles of violence, Shirava plans on using this system built on violence to save up enough money for her and her parents to move to safer lands and began working as an assassin. While she never asks for the reasons why her clients want their targets dead, so far the few jobs she has done have been related to local disputes. Each of the select few targets she has dealt with were all already engaged in some kind of violent dispute and were as unimportant as her in the grand scheme of things, allowing her work to go undetected so far, especially since Vel Anir has recently been struggling to maintain control over the nearby cities.
Shirava has been able to kill each of her few targets without them seeing her so far, meaning she has no experience in a true fight, though she is more skilled with her weapons than the average peasant. Because of her work as an assassin, she does whatever she can to avoid bringing attention to herself, meaning she does not let people get close, avoids talking more than necessary, and avoids confrontations however possible when she has to deal with other people.