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Shyla, Pack Sister

Started by DragonSong, February 12, 2018, 05:04:48 PM

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__________________QUICK STATS
Name Shyla
Age 18
Gender Female
Species Half-elf
Ethnicity Connlaothian
Height 5'6"
Orientation Kinda figuring it out?
Occupation Mercenary
Residence Northern side of Kilanthro Mountains.

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Physical Description
Shyla has fair skin and pale, silvery blond hair that falls to her lower back. Her nose is a thin blade above a bow-shaped mouth, all set under a surprisingly sever brow. Her eyes are a milky blue, a remnant of an illness she contracted as a child that left her blind.

Her build is not exactly small, but she does lean on the side of slight. Years of rather rough living have given her body a lean cast, though one wouldn't exactly call her muscular.

Personality
Abrupt is a good word to sum up Shyla's personality. She's never really had much social interaction outside her pack, so the short, sharp speech and "unorthodox" manners of a group of mercenaries have greatly colored her upbringing and consequential mannerisms.

She's by no means unfeeling or cruel, but she can be...cold. She is not one to put herself or those she loves in danger if she sees no point in it, not even to save another life.

Magic/Abilities
Shyla has a version of the Sight that has aided her well since she lost the use of her eyes; with a bit of concentration, she can see through the eyes of a nearby creature. There are very few restrictions on what kind of animal she can use to see: pretty much it just has to be alive and possess a sense of sight. However, she can make the connection more easily with a being she knows, or better yet has some sort of relationship with.

She is also very skilled field medic, though she has no healing magic.

When weapons are necessary, she fights with a quarterstaff that can double as an innocuous walking stick.

Relationships
Her pack, the Red Howlers mercenary group.

Aeris, foster brother

History
Abandoned as a toddler after a childhood illness struck her blind, Shyla was found wandering the mountain paths by Aeris, the eldest nephew of the then leader of the Red Howler mercenary group. He couldn't just leave the girl to freeze or starve, so he brought her back to the pack.

Being raised by a pack of cursed lycanthrope is not exactly the most conventional of upbringings, but Shyla was happy enough.

Her life was made decidedly less happy however when she began to learn of the curse that plagued her adoptive family. First with the death of her uncle, the Red Howler alpha, who died by tragic accident when he fell from a mountain pass and broke his neck barely a day before his twenty-seventh birthday.

It was then explained to her that, not just cursed to remain always in their halfway-wolf forms, the Ulfar family had all been sentence to die before they reached their thirtieth year. Each Ulfar for the last three generations had met such a fate, and so the Howlers consisted of a young and ever-reproducing family, the Ulfars desperate to carry on their line before the curse claimed their lives.

Shyla has made it her life goal to lift the curse from her family. And as Aeris' twenty-fifth birthday draws closer, she feels the urgency of her mission more than ever.

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