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Sadie Cohen, Alchemist and Outlaw

Started by Zero, January 18, 2014, 07:44:41 PM

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BASIC INFORMATION

Full name: Sadie Lynn Cohen
Nickname(s) or Alias:
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Height: 5' 0"
Weight: 97 lbs
Race: Human
Residence: Currently in transition
Occupation: Alchemist, Scholar, Inventor, Engineer, Scientist
Sexuality: Bisexual
Nationality: Connlaothian
Relationship Status: Widowed

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
If you start from the top, Sadie is really a cute woman that doesn't look her age at all. Red hair the color of "black" cherries falls in large spiral curls down past her shoulders to about her mid-back. With large green eyes the blue-green color of sea foam, high cheek bones, petite nose, narrow chin, pouty lips, pale skin, and a splash of freckles across her nose and cheeks she was always pretty.

Of course, in Connlaoth a pretty face is only half the battle for a woman. You see, in her home country, a woman is expected to have a generous amount of certain "assets". Curvy women are all the rage and what the men pursue. Sadie's body is straight, with narrow shoulders and hips, and her bust line certainly leaves something to be desired. She is a very petite woman all-around, short as is normal for her nationality, but without the gracious curves that really make a woman stand out.

She tends to dress in grey and black wool. Dark grey trousers, soft grey shirt, a black half-coat in the Connlaothian fashion, black mid-calf boots, and a heavy grey cloak with a hood. For gear she has a dark quarterstaff that is as long as she is tall and about as thick as her thumb. The staff has steel caps on each end, the better to thump you with!

She wears a pair of simple gold rings on a golden chain around her neck, obviously one is made for a woman, and one for a man. They are Donovan and her wedding bands.


PERSONALITY
Sadie could be described as fierce. Her pursuit of knowledge is tenacious and relentless. While part of her life was spent in Connlaoth were women were expected to submit to their men, she spent her adult life in Serendipity where ability and capability are far superior to mere genitalia. As a highly intellectual person, she has a low tolerance for stupidity and absolutely zero tolerance for willful ignorance.

While quiet, she is a rather animated individual at least in that she cannot stand to be idle. Sitting around doing nothing is not in her nature. At the very least, a book to read is a must, but having something to tinker with is even better.


SKILLS

Talents/skills:  Sadie has studied all her life, she's an eternal student with un unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Over the years she has dabbled in everything from engineering, tinkering, potions, chemistry, science, and alchemy. Alchemy being the one thing she has strived to master above all else.
Magic Abilities: While Sadie insists that Alchemy is science, not magic, not everyone views it that way. She can transmute matter such as turning lead into gold, wood to steel, etc.
She must follow the laws of equivalent exchange. Something cannot be gained unless something of equal value(volume) is lost. It is impossible to create something from nothing. Without material to work with, there can be no transmutation. Of course everything is potential material, because everything is made up of matter.


COMBAT

Peaceful or aggressive attitude? Defensive
Fighting skills/techniques: Hitting people with a stick!
Special skills: Knowing where to hit with a stick!
Weapon of choice (if any): Quarterstaff
Weaknesses in combat: Not physically strong at all
Strengths in combat: Brilliantly strategic and knows how to take advantage of any advantage she can find

FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FOES

Parents names: Lisa and Patrick Mayner
Are parents alive or dead? Alive
Is the character still in contact with their parents? Occasionally
Siblings? Relationship with siblings? None
Other Relatives:
Partner/Spouse: Donovan Cohen (Deceased)
Children: None
Best Friend: None
Other Important Friends: None
Acquaintances: Alastrom Gallegher (childhood 'friend')
Pets: None
Enemies? Why are they enemies? Too many to list! Mostly intellectual rivals.

BACKSTORY
Gethin is a small town in southern Connlaoth, and that is where Sadie Mayner was born and lived until she turned eleven years old. It was a quiet and peaceful place, for the most part, and didn't stand out at all from any of the hundreds of towns just like it all across the country. Growing up in a small place was sometimes difficult, because none of the other children were quite the same age as her. There was a group a bit older and a group a bit younger.

Naturally she tried to follow along with the older children and do whatever it was they were doing. This got her labelled as a bit of a pest by the older children. There was one in particular that Sadie was really fond of trailing along after, his name was Alastrom Gallegher.  She looked up to him(for whatever reason) and tried her best to copy him at times. Not that any of the older children wanted her around, and not that she realized that she was being a pest!

When she was eleven, Alastrom Gallegher, then seventeen, was taken by the church for being a mage. Shortly thereafter she became obsessed with mages and magic. Her parents, unable to dissuade her from her interest, moved to Serendipity where Sadie would not be persecuted for her interest. Once there, they all worked for a minor noble's house, and for the first time, she was able to actually be tutored and receive an education. Realizing her potential, she was sent to study with more advanced teachers after the first year in her new country.

It was in the apprenticeship of a master alchemist that she met and fell in love with a fellow apprentice, Donovan Cohen, and when they were seventeen they married. For years she lived happily, never stopping her education, simply expanding upon it without hint of reaching an end. She wanted to know about everything, how everything worked. She cycled through professions, dabbling here and there, but always coming back to alchemy and transmutation. Life had never been better for her, until when she was twenty-five, her world was suddenly shattered as she knew it when Donovan grew ill. She dropped everything and spent the next two years devoted to caring for him.

He passed away and she threw herself back into her studies, it was the only thing that really took her mind off of other things. Rumors reached her that there was a civil war in Connlaoth, and suddenly she had something new to focus her mind on. She hadn't lived there in many years, but it was still her birth country and they were persecuting mages worse than ever before. Unable to stand being idle, needing something to throw herself into, she headed to Connlaoth, an outlaw, a mage, and determined to save as many mages as she can - or die trying.

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