Spirits of the Earth

{NAME}
Liminessa Marchand

{ALIASES}
Sgt. or Miss Marchand, thank you very much. (But also Nessa)

{AGE}
29

{GENDER, SEXUALITY}
Female, unknown

{SPECIES/ETHNICITY}
Human, Serenian

{HEIGHT/BUILD}
5'10", a little higher if she's wearing her boots at the time. Slim but strong.

{OCCUPATION}
Sergeant in the Maestoso City Guard, Criminal Investigator

{RESIDENCE}
Maestoso, Tirial Province, Serendipity



{PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION}
Tall and slender, but should never be mistaken for delicate. Beneath silky-smooth deeply tanned skin (a rarity in Tirial), there is a fine layer of lean muscle from endless training and breaking up street fights. Her hair is a dark jade-green, which she wears long past her shoulders. On-duty she keeps the whole of it bound up into a tight bun, but otherwise she lets it hang loose or only partially done up.

Doe-eyed and with full, soft lips, you'd expect her to seem perpetually demure. This is far from the case, as all of that beauty is often paired with tense shoulders, a ramrod straight posture, and a stare that could make a sailor peel apart from his own shame.

On duty, she wears the usual city guard uniform, kept in pristine condition and with carefully polished boots. Off duty she favors loose, flowing shirts in seafoam greens and blues, with woolen vests and form-fitting pants tucked into equally carefully polished boots.

{PERSONALITY}

• Stern; she makes no allowances for anyone, and trying to sweet-talk your way out of trouble is only ever going to be met with a cold glare.
• Will 1000% suplex you into the sun; she is not skittish, and she is not above putting a troublemaker into a headlock and dropping their ass to the ground.
• Just; Nessa is even-handed in her dealings. She never punishes beyond the crime, and never grants special favors based on class. Everyone deserves the same attention, in her opinion, and she will work to seek justice for anyone.
• Shy; While she gives off an air of being robustly confident in her skills, Nessa genuinely hates having attention drawn to her, and will vehemently avoid public praise.
• Closet nerd; Nessa lives for storytelling, especially ones of high sweeping fantasies and whirlwind romances. She knows quite a few tales by heart, though she often gets so excited about them that her pacing and vocalization kinda... sucks. So she just focuses on listening.

Fun Facts!:

• Wino! Nessa loves loves loves the local wines, and spends many an evening with a bottle in lieu of dinner.
• Not nearly as Fae as her Provincial countrymen, Nessa is still quite allergic to iron, and prolonged contact with such will have her breaking out in hives.
• Want to see her in a gibbering, nonsensical mess? Hand her a tiny kitten, she cannot possible function like a normal person around them. She often takes in strays when the weather is particularly bad, and makes a habit of rehoming older cats out in the countryside as mousers.
• Loves Thanati imports, finds them aesthetically pleasing and will usually barter heavily to acquire something that catches her eye. She loves burning incense, in particular, which is hard to get as far inland as Maestoso. This, of course, is worthy of quite a few rumors and local gossip.
• One hell of a singer; she often sings to herself in her home, but will clam up if she knows there's an audience.

{SPECIAL ABILITIES}
Nessa isn't a mage in any full sense of the word, but she does have some minor talents, specifically in terms of warding. While not completely preventative, she is talented in setting up barriers that "dissuade" unwelcome guests, giving them a distinct feeling of unease unless she vocally invites them into her home.

Other talents lie in personal warding, twisting thread into braided chains to ward off unfriendly spells. And also too-friendly spells.

{RELATIONSHIPS}
The fourth child of a very minor noble house, Nessa has a pretty extensive family full of siblings, nieces and nephews and various in-laws of increasingly tenuous relation.

...As such, Nessa's choices in life were go off and make it on her own, or wait to be married off to another minor noble house. However, a series of terrible decisions and considerable scandal rendered her marriage prospects moot, so she moved on and out into the world with a borrowed name, eventually landing her in Tirial where she barely makes any contact with her estranged family. Any of her family.

{HISTORY}
Stuff happened, complicated stuff. So much stuff.