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Lynn Brinebelt, Prodigy of the Sword

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__________Lynn Brinebelt the Sword Prodigy
Name: Lynn Brinebelt
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Orientation: Bisexual
Species: Winter Elf
Height: 6.9 feet
Occupation: Swordswoman
Residence: Has a residence in Hyoite but travels

Here's the Drawing
(This is a redraw of another drawing, well the character is anyways the sword on the side is all mine)(I'll be pulling this image off when i finish my other drawing but this one will serve as an placeholder for now :3)
(The credit to the actual character goes to Hardedge-Maelstrom on Deviant Art Link)

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Physical Description
Lynn is quite tall woman as most would notice at first sight of her, Her skin is fair and her hair is long and black as ravens. Her body is slightly curvy and also well toned from her training regimen, Her eyes are of an amber orange colour they also hold a slight otherworldly glimmer that makes them look incredibly beautifull to most who gaze into them.

Lynn's body have only a few scars but they are quite large, she has two large scars on her back from a misshap during training, there is one long scar running along her outer and inner thigh also from an accident, and also a couple of thin scars on her arms from mishandling her sword.

Lynn's clothes are mostly like showed on the picture as she have a great resistance towards cold she does not need much clothes even whe she is in her homeland, though she tends to clothe herself warmer when going to Hyoite. She carries her sword on her hip in a seath made so that she could draw it easily despite it's length.

Personality
Lynn is an curious soul and she allways hungers for new things to learn, but she is also very self aware about herself and others around herself and thus gets embarassed very easily. Lynn also have an emotional bond to the sword she carries with her everywhere, If she is separated from her sword for any reason though she will go through a change in personality as she gets much more easily scared and also much shyer than usual.

However when she draws her sword she becomes a whole new person, Her gaze becomes focused and sharp like the edge of her sword. Personality wise she becomes very observant and imovable by things that normally would bother her, Fear is a foreign concept to her when wielding her sword and she can be very harsh towards others but she would still have respect for them. Lynn refers to this part of her as the Master Phase because when she wields her sword allmost no one can match her prowess with the sword, the only one to best her so far is her teacher.

Magic/Abilities
Lynn have no magic powers whatsoever and probably never will have either. However her abilities with the sword could be called magical, She allways had a natural skill with the sword and when she found a master to teach her more that skill soared to the heavens. Lynn is a prodigy of the sword and given enough time she would become unmatched with the sword.

Lynn is very fast strong and agile with the sword to a point that if someone saw her fighting would think she was using magic to enhance her skill with the sword, but nay it's her natural talent that is the foundation of her technique, a very rare natural talent that is. The techiques she uses make her style look like a flowing dance, a very deadly and sharp dance but despite it's lethality it is utterly beautiful.

Though Lynn is very poficient with the sword she not a master yet and she have much to learn, And learn she will because her natural ability allows her to learn from fighting with others and very fast at that. It could seem to be a loss for her at the beginning of a fight but at the end she have turned the tables completely, Not a 100% success strategy but it is still very much in her favor no matter the situation.

Lynn's sword is an masterfull creation made by her teacher it is about 4.5 feet long overall, it certainly shows that it's the work of a grandmaster, it never loses it's edge and the reflection in the edge never dulls. even though it can bend slightly it will allways retake it's original shape and it will never break under any condition. Lynn recieved this sword when her master ended her training but he had not named the sword since it was not to be his companion through life, After giving the sword a test Lynn named the sword "Silence". "Silence" because the sword does not emit any kind of sound under any kind of circumstance wheter it be clashing with another sword or cutting through stone, Lynn refers to "Silence" as "The sword without a voice".

Relationships
Lynn still have family in Hyoite but since she ended her training with her teacher she traveled out to find others who followed the sword to sharpen her abilities.

So far she has not met anyone with skill enough to test her properly and so she decided to search past Hyoite, She never made fun of those that lost to her she treated them all with respect and such she became friends or rivals with most she tested herself against.

Her master and teacher is close to her heart but she knows they could never be together.

History
Lynn was born in an village far up in the mountains where a clan of Snow Elves lived, there was nothing special with her birth and that continued to be a trend as she grew up untill she was old enough to go out of the villages borders. It was a normal day for Lynn as she went out of her house and joined up with her friends for a little trip out to the forest just outside the village, that was nothing out of the ordinary for the group of friends so they went to the forest to play.

They played for a long time in the forest and finally decided to make a fire to warm themselves up a bit, they took their knives and began cutting down some branches for firewood, Lynn was carrying a bunch of twigs to the firepit they had made the first time they went to the forest and after dumping the twigs she saw one of her friends carving a piece of wood with their knife. She felt a longing to do the same and thus went out into the forest again to find a piece of wood to carve at, and a little while later she found a long piece of wood that she took up and looked at for signs of rot.

There was no rot to be found on the wood and she could see how the wood would make a great carving piece, She hurried back to the fireplace and found her friends warming themselves up. They smiled at the return of their friend and asked where Lynn had gone off to, She explained her little trip as she sat down on a log and unseathed her knife and began carving away on it. It was as if the shape came to her naturally as she slowly shaped the wood into a long slightly curved sword with beautifull patterns carved into it, Lynn was absolutely stunned by the result of her carving and her friends marveled at the wood sword that Lynn had made. They asked her how she had become so good at carving but they were met with Lynns own suprise at the wood sword, she had no idea how she had made such a beautifull object.

She rose from the log with her wood sword in hand and walked out into the snow and swung the sword into the air, It felt so natural in her hand it was allmost unreal to her she held the sword in both hands and gazed upon the wooden blade with admiration and a feeling of joy she had never felt before. She swung the sword again and without resitance it knocked down a thick branch on a tree, her friends had followed her out in the snow and looked at her with awe as they saw the natural way the sword moved in her hands. All of her friends swarmed her to look at the sword before telling eachother that they should also make swords of their own, they asked Lynn to help them pick out a suitable wood piece to make their sword.

A couple of minutes later they were all back at the fireplace carving away at their wood pieces, Lynn meanwhile carved at a small slab of wood and made a small plate with a simple emblem on it. The emblem was a large snowflake with one hexagon in the middle and one on each of the snowflakes eight arms they were for each of her friends and herself, She made eight more of the plates as her friends still carved at their swords. She gave one to each of her friends who asked what it was for, She said with a shy smile "I thought that we should form a guild, I made us each an emblem we can wear to show off our guild" She looked at her friends with a smile waiting for their response but they stayed quiet and looked at eachother. "Was that a bad idea...?" She asked a bit worried but she was met with smiles and encouragement as they agreed with the idea, and then one of the girls asked "But what should we call our guild?" It got quiet again and everyone looked amongst eachother before all eyes were on Lynn and said in harmony "The Amber Snowflakes!".

Night was approaching and the friends made it back to the village and going home but they had agreed to meet again the next day, Lynn entered her home now wearing the wood plate sown onto her shawl looking rather neat and her sword hung upon her back with an improvised seath made of twine and wood. Lynn's mother were suprised to see the sword that Lynn had made and asked Lynn about it, Lynn explained all that had happened with her friends that day and about the amber snowflakes and also about the feeling she had when she had wielded the sword. Her mother smiled with a nostalgic look upon her face as she picked up lynn and sat down upon the thick rugs i front of the fireplace, She stroked Lynns hair as she looked into the fire and then she began to tell Lynn about her father.

Lynn's father was a warrior of some reknown that had met Lynns mother during a moot between another clan of snow elves, Lynn's mother told of how Lynn had her father's eyes and she also said that it was most likely from her father that she had gotten the feeling for a sword. The night went on as Lynn's mother told her about her father and long into the night they had been quiet for a time as Lynn had fallen asleep, Lynn's mother smiled as she wrapped some furs around herself and her daughter before going to sleep aswell. In the morning Lynn asked her mother some more about her father and soon time came for her friends to meet again, She went out to find her friends and found them waiting for her to go out to the forest again to their new Guild "hall".

This went on for many years and early on all the friends begun training with eachother, It was not long before all friends knew that Lynn was the very best with the sword of them all. Her friends agreed that Lynn should be the Guild leader and at first Lynn did not want to but she accepted the titel after some convincing, Every day they would train with eachother and every time Lynn would rise another notch in her skill. As the years passed Lynn got more and more skilled as did her friends but not at the same rate as she did, and even though she remained the guildmaster she kept her personality towards her friends though it was in that time that her Master Phase developed from the pressure of being the guildmaster.

Some years later Lynn was a young woman and a exceptionally skilled swordswoman, but she still used the same wooden sword she had carved years ago it was if she had a bond to the sword. It was at a meeting with her friends her life would change forever, She came to the guild hall now a more fitting hall than before and noticed that one of her friends was telling a story that a passing merchant had told him. It was about a Man living farther up in the mountains in an abandoned temple, the merchant had met this man and recognized him as none other than Arcem Yellowtail a living legend of the sword. As soon as Lynn had heard the story she picked up her wooden sword and then wrapped her shawl around her neck and shoulders, She hurried home to her mother and asked for some food and water to go. While waiting she explained that she wanted to visit the abandoned temple and the man living there, her mother understood her daughters wish and agreed to give her what she needed to make the travel but made Lynn promise to be cautious.

An hour later Lynn left the village and traveled towards the temple that the merchant had spoken about, It took a day and a half to find the temple and when Lynn arrived she had half of her food left and she were somewhat cold. But she pushed up the heavy wooden doors of the temple and entered the empty halls to find that large lit candles lined the sides of the hall and at the end of the hall sat a man now looking at Lynn with his sharp bright yellow eyes, Lynn froze from the man's stare and looked back at him with her own amber eyes. "Why have you come here girl?" The man asked Lynn who akwardly took some steps foward and looked at the man "Are you Arcem Yellowtail?"

That day was the day Lynn started her training with Arcem and her training would continue untill she became 22, Lynn once more entered the temple that now had a more homey feel with furs and rugs laid out on the floor but nothing had been repaired on the temple so it still had an ancient air to it. Lynn walked out to the inner courtyard where Arcem waited for her and as she approached him she somehow felt that today would be very different, and she was right Arcem told her that her training with him was over and that she was to leave the temple untill the day she could best him in combat. It stung in her heart to know that she would not be allowed to see Arcem again and she were on the verge of tears, But when she saw Arcem smile the tears vanished and as he held out a sword set in a beautiful scabbard towards Lynn she was struck by shock. "This Blade will from now on be your partner leave your nameless sword here untill the day you can come back here." Lynn wiped a tear from the corner of her eye and handed over her trusty wooden sword and then took the sword that Arcem had made for her.

"What is her name?" Lynn asked and looked at Arcem but he shook his head and looked at the sword "That is not for me to decide, but rather for you to decide", Lynn took in those words and strapped the new sword onto her waist before turning towards a large rock besides her. She grasped the hilt of the sword and oh it felt so natural, she focused and in an instant she had drawn her blade without even the slightest sound, The silence broke as the rock fell apart in two large pieces and Lynn looked upon the blade. "Silence... Her name is Silence" She said with a growing smile as she looked at Arcem who nodded in agreement, A small ceremony followed where Arcem carved the name Silence upon the blade with his own blade "White Feather" and after that Lynn left the Temple and went back to her home in the village. She gathered her friends and family and told them that she would go out on a journey to sharpen her skills, she said goodbye to everyone and left the village with all her friends and family waving her off.

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