War in Rodicia(O/A; need Gailor people)

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The continent of Rodicia. It is home to many people. As such, it has many different countries. Among these countries are the kingdoms of Gailor and Faren. These two countries were never exactly on "friendly" terms, but the last few centuries have only seen minor border skirmishes.
Suddenly, Gailor invaded Faren. Caught by surprise, the Faren army was ill prepared. Gailor marched towards the Faren capital and laid siege to it. However, the Faren army didn't last long and fell after only a few days. As soon as the enemy fell, Gailor entered the city. The king of Gailor and a few members of the army went to the castle and slew the nobles. Then King Gailor killed the entire royal family, with the exception of the prince, Akihiko, who managed to escape. With the death of the royal family also came the death of the kingdom of Faren, for it was now ruled by Gailor.
Two years later, a mercenary going by the name of Aki started to claim to be the missing Prince Akihiko. Not only do him and the prince share similar names, Aki also bears a striking resemblance to Akihiko. Aki is now raising an army to defeat Gailor and reclaim his country in the name of Faren.

 

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Faren

Gaia username: Stefisgarden
Name:Aki
Real name: Akihiko Kiyoshi Faren
Age: 17
Gender: male
Personality: willing to fight to protect those he loves, always puts the citizens of Faren before himself
Weapon: sword
Side: Faren
Bio: Two years ago, Akihiko's parents and little sister, Alice, were killed right in front of his eyes. He had managed to escape at the cost of their lives and the lives of many soldiers. Even at that age, he knew it was his duty to the people of Faren to survive. On that day, he swore to get revenge for his family and his country.
For the past two years, Akihiko had been known as Aki, a mercenary. He had to stay far from the capital, where his face was well known. Instead, he stayed in the rural areas near the borders. He has been training for the day when he takes on King Gailor. Now he feels he is ready, so he made his presence known.
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Gaia username: Stefisgarden
Name: James
Age: 15
Gender: male
Personality: innocent, childish, lacking in self confidence, afraid to fight
Weapon: crossbow
Side: Faren
Bio: James had led a normal life until two years ago. His two older brothers had served in the Faren army, but died during the siege on the castle. He had been too afraid to join the army. His mother saw Aki and his party and left James with them, claiming that she wanted him to grow stronger. However, James knew that she was just embarrassed to have such a cowardly son. He resolved to become stronger and show his mother what he could be.
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Gaia username: Stefisgarden
Name: Hana
Age: 22
Gender: female
Personality: kind and caring, protective, will put Aki before anything else
Weapon: no physical weapon, but she used chi as a weapon(described below)
Side: Faren
Bio: Hana was just a common foot soldier in the army when Gailor attacked. However, despite the low rank, she helped Akihiko escape. After that, she promised to protect him until the day Faren is back in their hands.
Other: She manipulates chi into blasts of chi that she uses as an offense, chi barriers that she uses as a defense, and healing wounded allies with chi
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Gaia username: Stefisgarden
Name: Kari
Age: 17
Gender: female
Personality: a caring and loyal friend, she will do anything for her friends, she's very quiet and doesn't open up very easily
Weapon: magic, particularly lightning
Side: Faren
Bio: Kari was from a small village on the border of Faren and Gailor. As such, her town saw a lot of violence. But nothing that reached the scale of attack that was seen the day Faren was invaded. Her entire village was destroyed in the invasion, everyone in it killed. She was away from the village at the time, so she was spared, but all her friends and family died. When she learned of this, she was devastated. She swore vengeance. After the attack, she moved to Tinto, which grew from a small village into a large city. Now, two years later, she still hasn't gotten her revenge. But when she heard the Faren prince was alive, she decided to join him in his fight to reclaim Faren, not knowing the feelings she would develop...
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Gaia username: lottie-tottie1240
Name: Selina
Real name: Selina Cordelia Craymore
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Personality: She is loyal and trustworthy, she hates backstabbers and betrayers, she is known to be wise and skilled in fighting. She is skilled with weapons. she listens and she can be hard to get on with at first, she is gifted in singing and she likes being by herself most of the time to think, however she likes the right company.
Weapon: Two swords, bow
Side: Faren
Bio: She was born in a small family, at the age of 14, her house was raided and her family was slaughtered before her eyes during the invasion of gailor, she was slashed down her back by the enemy and left for dead, she was found and nurse back to health, her hate for the gailor built up and she developed her own style of fighting and designed her own sense of dignity and pride.
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Gaia username:xenocharger
Name:Xeno Reike
Age:20
Gender:Male
Personality:Xeno is calm, and likes to keep things that way, usually telling others to stay calm as well. He is annoyed very easily, but it takes a while to actually get him angry. He is anti-social, but once you actually get to know him, he is easy to get along with.
Weapon: sword
Side:Faren
Bio: Xeno lived a rather dull life. He went to school without friends, and as soon as he was old enough to get a well paying job, his family moved away. He finished school, got a good job, and bought a nice house. One day, Xeno left Faren to visit family in a bordering town. When he came back a few weeks later, he found that Faren was being invaded, and that he had no choice but to leave. Xeno had lived there ever since he was born, so he didn't take the fact that it had been overrun too lightly. He immediately joined Aki's army, and hoped that they would be able to take back Faren.
Other:Xeno has a very short attention span, so he rarely finishes things. He also suffers from insomia, so he rarely ever gets sleep.

Gaia username: Fallen_shinku
Name: Kai
Real name: Xu Kai Hui (徐楷惠)
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Personality: Kai is a strategic and cunning thinker, a result of his many years spent studying under a Master Strategist. He displays an outward image of being calm, and in control, sometimes perceived as a sign of arrogance. Kai is wholly dedicated to his teacher and keeps his lesson in heart even after his passing. He seeks to perfect the teaching of the Master Zhu and to also see to it that Prince Akihiko fulfills his destiny.
Weapon: Fan- A gift from Kai's teacher. It serves more as a symbol of knowledge than a weapon. It is embroidered with foreign characters, which fills nearby people with a feeling of unease. Kai doesn`t use the fan to fight, but instead uses it to channel his magic and perform defensive “dances.”
Side: Faren
Bio: Kai was born in a far-off country, on another continent across the sea. He was born into a poor peasant family, in a land filled with conflict and turmoil. Many civil wars were taking place in this area, as three different empires tried to claim their right to the Emperor's Throne. Kai's father left the family to join the army, promising to come back when he had earned renown in the army. Months past, and the year was approaching its end, however, there was still no news from his father. Then news arrived on how a neighboring nation had routed the local noble family. They had lost the war. Kai and his mother had all but given up hope on his father's safe return and proceeded to arrange for his funeral. However, one day a, the father returned, claiming that he had earned renown during the war by defecting to the invading empire and promising their victory of the land (Kai did not knew this at the time). He claimed that as a reward, they were to move to the capital and live a wealthy life.
Kai and his family eventually moved to the capital, where they were given a relatively large plot of land by the new ruler. His family also received gold in return for his father's services. Kai was then sent to school, to become an educated citizen and to be “useful” for the new empire. Shortly after starting his education, Kai caught the eye of the Master Strategist and Sage of the new empire; Master Zhu. Master Zhu was so impressed by Kai's intellect and cunning that he took him in as his apprentice. Kai proved to be an ideal pupil, learning fast, developing that knowledge, and applying it to his life. Master Zhu was so proud of the child that he started to teach him the strategic way of warfare and the mystical art of the Sage, hoping one day that he would be his successor. Kai soaked in this knowledge, fascinated by the possibilities it opened for him.
Years passed and Kai started accompanying Master Zhu to the battlefield. There he would watch as Master Zhu crushed armies with his cunning and magic. Kai soon started to idolize the master and this only enlarged his thirst for that very power. At this time the country was divided by two empires, the one which took over Kai's homeland, and the larger force to the north. Master Zhu decided it was finally time to bring the war to a close in one final battle. Both sides marched off to finish the decades long conflict on the Wu Zhang Plains.
Kai accompanied his teacher to this event. He watched as the battle started, and as it unfold. The enemy forces tried many different tactics but Master Zhu saw through each and subdued them in an orderly fashion. Kai could still remember the pride he felt that day, standing beside Master Zhu as he seemingly counter the enemy at every turn.
But then, the unthinkable happened. All of a sudden the tent in which they were in caught on fire and screams could be heard from outside. Kai jumped up, surprised at what was occurring. He heard Master Zhu got up and muttered something along the lines of “It has come down to this.” Master Zhu signaled the soldiers standing guard at the entrance of the tent, battle ready to stop anything from coming through. The soldiers immediately left their posts and began tearing away at the map which hung on the far wall. Kai, confused, looked to his teacher, whom deftly withdrew a thickly-bound book, and fan from his robes and handed them both to Kai. Then he shoved Kai to the soldiers, whom immediately grabbed him and took off though a previously unseen pathway behind the map. Kai turned back just in time to see Master Zhu step out of the tent, and shortly after followed by a deafening explosion.
Once Kai and the small group of soldiers made it through the tunnel, they turned back to see their encampment covered in giant boulders, and a nearby mountain missing a good portion of its stature. After short moments of mourning, the small entourage proceeded to a nearby river, where a boat was prepared. The small entourage entered the boat and was swept down the river.
On the journey back, Kai studied the book that was left by his late teacher. Inside the book was a letter, detailing what occurred in the last few moments before the Master Zhu's death, along with what Kai should do, if he dies. The letter noted that the book was what was left of Kai's training. The fan was a gift from teacher to pupil, which was to serve as a gift for Kai when he completed his training. The letter also informed Kai that the incident which occurred at Wu Zhang Plains was the effect of several officers defecting to the other side. Master Zhu, having no choice, was forced to use his magic to bury the whole encampment, effectively killing all the traitors, and himself. The letter concluded saying that as soon as Kai learned all that he could from the book he was to destroy it until it is time for him to find a sucessor.
Once Kai made it back from the field of battle, he sought to become the new Master Strategist. However, upon his arrival, he was faced with extreme prejudice and anger. Confused, he later found out that Master Zhu was seen as a traitor in this land, as he seemingly dropped a mountain on top of his own encampment, which costed the battle and war. Kai and the soldiers tried to convince the people otherwise, but they would not believe a single word of it.
Then armed escorts came to round up Kai and the few soldiers whom were left from the battle. They were put on trial in front of the Emporer for assisting treason. The soldiers were immediately put to death. Kai watched as the soldiers who were still loyal to Master Zhu were lined up and, one by one, were beheaded. Then it was his turn at the “trial.” The Emperor questioned many times for Kai to relay the “truth” of the event, but Kai persisted. Exhausted the Emperor gave up and penalized Kai with banishment instead of death, in regards to what he claims as “The ignorance of youth.”
Kai was shipped to the country of Faren a few years later. He decided to make a name for himself and to revive his master's legacy in this new land. When he first got to the capital of Faren, he opened up a divination stand on the streets. After awhile of business, he eventually caught the attention of various wealthy and influential people of the area, mainly wealthy merchants. With this he went up in the hierarchy of Faren, getting the attention of many for his unique (and eerily accurate) predictions. This allowed Kai to build up relationships with those higher in the hierarchy, thus increasing his position further more. Eventually he was invited to do service for the nobility of Faren. The king and queen was so impressed with his work that they hired him full time as a "Divinator" (or Court Magician, whatever floats your boat). There a strange event took place. While doing a divination for the adolescent Akihiko, Kai saw darkness in the child's future, and that he would be one to change many lives across the land. Intrigued by the child's interesting future, he decided to stay by the families side until the time comes when the Prince Akihiko will have to meet his destiny.
Other: Kai's magic is achieved through various incantations, gestures, and charms. For large-scale and complicated spells, rituals must be used. Rituals are varied depending on the desired outcome, but usually include a large drawn circle in which the caster chants from. The circle and embellishments will change depending on the spell being cast.
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Gaia username: KuroSeiryu
Name: Renka
Real name: Renka Ekelif Strauss
Age: 20
Gender: male
Personality: Quiet and keeps to himself usually, but very trustworthy when it comes to his comrades.
Weapon: A large scythe that appears too heavy to use. (in pic)
Side: Faren
Bio: Renka was raised in a secluded village of warriors with his sister Inui, their parents were the main guards of the village head. From childhood Renka showed talent with two handed weapons that were somewhat difficult for some of the adult warriors and quickly took on scythes as his favorite choice. Unknowingly raising his reputation above his elder sister who was the top hunter. Once he was of age he journeyed to the mountain just behind their village to gather ore for his personal weapon, finding a vane of rough sapphires withing the twisted tunnels. Thereafter donning clothing of similar hue of his weapon as the people of their village usually do as a sigh of a full-fledged warrior. After Renka and several others were out hunting for a few days, they returned to a partially destroyed village and helped search for survivors, who named Inui's name as the one that attacked.
While the survivors starting burying the dead and rebuilding their homes, Renka left to seek out his sister...weather is was to get revenge or not, he never said.
Other: His scythe weighs about 85-90 pounds, but Renka doesn't seem to have a problem lifting it with one hand.
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Gaia username: Gwen of Air 13
Name: Damon C.
Real name: Iohannes Arthur Fezick
Age: Twenty-three
Gender: Male
Personality: Damon is bat-s**t insane. He hears voices(particularly one called 'Nailboy', the disembodied voice of the cranium he carries around), and listens to them. He claims they're either his 'friends' or 'the Gods'. (The Gods are the players in the RP. He can hear OOC, and tends to break the fourth wall.) However, most people brush this off as him being 'crazy'.

Damon never quite grew out of that stage you have in childhood, where you believe that bad people deserve death. However, he did grow some, but rather than the normal path(life is gray and gray, there is no 'good' or 'bad'), he just expanded to 'All people are assholes, thus everyone deserves pain'. He won't lay a hand on a child, but if you've hit puberty, tough luck, you're free game! However, this whole 'won't hurt a child' is less because he's a good person and more because children usually haven't done anything worth punishing yet. The only child he wouldn't hurt/actually likes is his own son, who he hasn't seen in two years.

But no matter HOW crazy he is, Damon is surprisingly logical, befriending the 'main characters'(who he 'knows' will never get hurt), not biting off more than he can chew(though he can 'chew' quite a good amount), and generally knowing his boundaries.
Weapon: Whatever hurts the 'patient'. He prefers knives to anything else, but will also use needles, whips, torches/fire, nails, blunt objects, etc. If there is nothing around, he'll just claw at the attackers face until they let go and he runs like the wind.
Side: Faren. Unless the Gay Lord offers him more things to torture.
Bio: Not much is known about Damon's childhood, mostly because he's forgotten, and doesn't seem to care enough to try and remember. He makes vague references to being bullied in school, but he doesn't use it as an excuse for the things he does. People ask him about his childhood, and he shrugs.

In fact, Damon's mother died in childbirth, and he was raised mainly by his father, who was Faren's head inquisitor at the time. He was bullied quite mercilessly in school, but he didn't mind so much. He did vow to torture each and every one of his schoolmates to death when he became head inquisitor, but the things he said seemed more like childish anger fits than actual threats.

When he actually became an inquisitor, following in his father's footsteps, Damon changed his name from Iohannes to Damon, which is Latin for 'To Tame'. Because of his 'unique' ability to be completely heartless(as taught by his father), he rose to the top quickly. Read the paragraph before this one, then ask yourself: what do you think he did first?

Damon inspired fear into even his own king, the only person he took orders from. He didn't really care when Gailor invaded, finding all the carnage 'strangely arousing'. However, he wasn't so happy when Gailor outlawed the inquisition and chucked him in jail two years after he started rule. Damon is now very much angry, and willing to do just about anything to gain leverage against Gailor...
Other: Watch your back. Just because he's on Faren's side, which seems to mean 'good' generally, that doesn't make him a good person. He'd happily stab you if you piss him off.
Appearance:Real whispy

Gailor

Gaia username: FlamingVoid
Name: King Emil Heiden Gailor
Age: 37
Gender: male
Personality: evil, cruel, ambitious
Weapon: battle axe
Side: Gailor
Bio: Two years ago, King Emil attacked and took over Faren. For the past two years, he let bandits and pirates attack the villages with doing anything to stop them. These conditions were great for mercenaries. Mercenary groups like Aki's rose up all over the place to help the citizenry. Little did he know, he was creating to perfect training field for the prince he failed to kill.
Appearance:(ignore the sword)

Gaia username: Stefisgarden
Name: Satoshi
Age: 19
Gender: male
Personality: loyal, cold
Weapon: knives and daggers
Side: Gailor
Bio: Nothing is known about Satoshi's past. He joined the Gailor army only a year before the attack on Faren, but, during that year, he had quickly advanced to the rank of assassin before the attack.
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Gaia username: Gwen of Air 13
Name: Dr. Franken Stein
Real name: Shanton M. Harding
Age: Thirty-six
Gender: Male
Personality: Dr. Stein is insane. Surely, at one point in his childhood, he was a perfectly normal boy, but he is not now. He lives for his work, and some say that this drive is what causes his insanity. Whatever he likes, he dotes on, and whatever he doesn't like, he threatens to dissect. This can sound silly, coming at inanimate objects('You damn rock! I wanna dissect you!'), but can be terrifying if said in a battle. Note: When he says this to girls, it is not a pickup line. Get the hell out of there.
Weapon: Dr. Stein doesn't generally fight. When he does, he usually uses surgical equipment, but he's not picky. He'll use whatever is available at the time.
Side: Gailor, though he feels no attachment to it. He would gladly abandon them if it meant living better, or not having to go through hardships.
Bio: No one is exactly sure when Shanton started to become what he was. The best guess would be when he saw his mother's hand being cut off as public humiliation, a punishment for theft. This was also probably about the time when he turned against Faren.

Between that time and the time he was twenty-three, Shanton had decended into madness. He studied under a doctor, and was well known for being excellent at what he did, but no one wished to visit him. This was because rumors that he was crazy circled about, and he never denied once that it was true.

But when he was twenty-three, one of Shanton's many brothers, who had gotten married, had his first child, and Shanton's first niece. Without fully understanding what was going on, he was pulled back into the family he had distanced himself from, because he had to help take care of her. She was a sickly child, and as the family doctor, he had to spend quite a lot of time making sure she didn't push herself past her limits. He felt, eventually, that he was her father more than her real father was. This caused him some difficult feelings, because he tended to hate little children. He had never before understood maternal feelings.

And they terrified him.

When he was thirty, Shanton connected his fear to the little girl. It had to be her, he convinced himself. He felt frightened whenever she was around, so who else could it be? However, when he told his brother that he didn't wish to see the man's daughter anymore, he had to admit to being frightened of her. He reassured his brother that it had nothing to do with her being contagious, he just couldn't be near her any longer. And so, without saying goodbye, he allowed his niece to fade into the background of his mind.

Years passed. Four, to be exact. Shanton distanced himself more from the rest of the family. They had forgotten what Fairen had done to them. But he did not forget. And so, he sat for four years, brooding, planning revenge that he knew he would never act on.

And then she appeared on his doorstep.

His niece, despite all his efforts, had returned, like a yo-yo. She was standing in front of his door, sniffling, her eyes rubbed raw. Her father had been killed in some massacre involving the king and some other stuff. He didn't really understand what she was trying to tell him, since her story was continually broken with sobs from the girl who was almost a woman. But what he did understand, to his horror, was that she had nowhere else to go, because everyone else didn't want her, which meant that he was obliged to house her until she found someone else. He couldn't just kick her out, could he?

But she never found anyone to let her stay. And in this way she forced her uncle to keep her. And because he was unable to run from her, Shanton found that he actually rather liked his little niece. Only one thing bothered him now: why did he feel all weird and fuzzy around her?
Other: Shanton changed his name to Dr. Franken Stein for safety, so as not to be recognized as a member of the Harding family. This was paranoia.


Appearance:Dr. Stein

Gaia username: lottie-tottie1240
Name: Devina
Real name: Devina Lilly Moore
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Personality: She is said to be mad and ruthless, she gives no sympathy and is quick to kill, she is stubborn and ill tempered
Weapon: Magic
Side: Gailor
Bio: She was a normal girl living within the walls of gailor, during the the battle, when the gailor soldiers set off to take over faren. She was a sofisticated young lady learning the art's of magic, she was taken into the dark magic and it consumed her, tainting her with possesiveness and greed. she serves gailor as a powerful mage and skilled in close combat.
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Gaia username:KuroSeiryu
Name: Sei
Real name: Inui Seirei Strauss
Age:24
Gender:female
Personality:pretends to be sweet most of the time, but hateful and wants to prove her worth.
Weapon:short bow(in pic) but also keeps a dagger in each boot in case of close combat.
Side: Gailor
Bio: Inui used to be a happy friendly girl, she was top in her class of weapons training and quickly rose in the hunter's ranks. Often called a prodigy and -princess, that is until her little brother Renka started showing great promise at a young age. The villagers were soon talking about his skills more then hers. Enraged by the lack of attention she thought she deserved, Inui attacked her own village while her brother was out. Once she left she changed her spoken name Sei to avoid immediate attention from those that may follow.

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Gaia username: hasaha
Name: Mira
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Personality: Mira is childish though tries to act like her 'Uncle'. She's still young and her view of the world is ever changing.
Weapon: Gauntlets and Greaves
Side: Gailor
Bio: Mira had been stricken by a strange sickness during the fall of Faren and was bed ridden. She woke up not knowing where she was or for the matter who she was and in the care of a man she didn't know who called her Mira. Her only memory from before are the gauntlets and greaves she has. For the next 2 years he took care of her teaching how to cook, clean, and protect herself. She joined the army to be close to the only family she knows, though after seeing the treatment of the people she wonders if this is what she really wants.
Other: Her weapons are forged of an unknown metal strong as steel yet light weight like leather gloves. Due to the shape they are deigned to an unknown deity.
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Gaia username: hasaha
Name: Tassr
Real name: Tassr Yedredt
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Personality: Usually stoic, but shows great compassion to those in need.
Weapon: A blunt great sword at the moment.
Side: Gailor
Bio: Tassr was born in a village to the far north where the weather was always fiercely cold and the animals just as so. At 15 as part of a rite into manhood he had killed one of the great wolves that were a big as a man with only his bare hands. At 18 he joined a mercenary group because every other job had turned him away because of his looks. After several years he quit but was soon after drafted into the Gailor army and during the fall of Faren he had killed several men only to find they had been protecting their sister who lay bed ridden. Filled with remorse he helped her recover from her sickness though she woke with no memories. Tassr gave her the name Mira and for the next 2 years taught her to take care of herself. He disapproved Mira's joining the army but didn't stop her as it was her wish.
Other: His weapon is only temporary due to his hercule strength and due to wear they break. In battle he is sometimes taken by blood rage.
Appearance: Tassr stands an impressive 6' 5", and is solid muscle with a slightly bulky build. He has dark brown eyes and cropped black hair with scars all over his body. He usually wears a leather vest, loose fitting pants, and leather boots. In battle the only armor he wears is gauntlets that reach up to his elbows as anything else hinders his movement.

Gaia username: hasaha
Name: Michal
Real name: Michal Sendrid
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Personality: Inquisitive by nature he comes off as nosy but he just likes to be prepared.
Weapon: Crossbow, 2 mini crossbows, and a satchel full of pellets.
Side: Gailor
Bio: Michal was born into a poor peasant family they never had much. The scholars they served in exchange for food and shelter were very kind and taught many things to the Michal who sat in wonder of the things they knew. He not only developed his mind but his body as well. When he grew up he left his home to use what he learned to make a life for himself.
Other: A mercenary through and through his services go to the highest bidder. His cross bows have magazine attachments he invented himself that allow him to fire up to 7 times before he has to change them out. His satchel carries harmless smoke screens to poison pollen that slow the reactions of its victims.
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Gaia username: Gwen of Air 13
Name: Tak T. Ickz
Real name: Tanka R. Puoise
Age: Nineteen
Gender: Female
Personality: Tak is a very strategical woman, well versed in battle logic. She is a born leader, determined to do anything required to accomplish her mission, even if that means improvising or not having everything go exactly as planned. She has a bad tendency of getting very angry in debates, and going into monologues when lecturing people. She is a highly stubborn and opinionated person. She also forgets her strength often, and accidentally hurts people.
Weapon: Tak, being a very old-fashioned fighter, uses a spear, with a bronze sword in case of problems where her opponent somehow gets close to her. She's also known to just, y'know, bash their heads in with her shield.
Side: Gailor
Bio: Tanka was the third child born in her family, and the first daughter. Her mother was growing sick by then, and, good for her health, could not get pregnant. Tak was brought up as the youngest child, so when her mother ecstatically proclaimed herself pregnant when Tak was six, Tak was not pleased. She wanted to be her mother's favorite, which she knew would stop if her mother had another baby. But she put up with it, and was there when her mother gave birth. When you see a childbirth, it is hard to hate the child, something Tak found out early in life. Her little sister wasn't so bad, really, and Tak found herself happy to be left alone and to not have to be babied. At least her older brothers weren't being unkind to her for being the favorite anymore.

Tak ended up growing up as the 'wild child'. She spend more time running barefoot in the mud then she did sewing quilts together, like every other nine-year old did. She would come home dirty, and her mother would give her a harsh scolding on acting so boyish while washing her off. But despite her wild nature, Tak held a strange fascination with the military. Every time the army came storming through the towns, while most people locked their doors and pretended not to be home, she would rush outside to watch, or, if her mother wouldn't let her, press her nose up against the glass to stare at the procession. It was her dream to become a member of the army. Her mother always told her that it was stupid, and remind her that she was a girl, and would not be allowed to join the army. So Tak, brokenhearted, just sat in her house and waited, waited for a chance to prove herself.

And then the day came.

Tak remembered the day well. She was thirteen, and her mother was desperate to get her a husband and out of the house. While her mother was out talking to neighbors about her daughter as a potential wife, the army came storming through again. Her mother and neighbors ran to hide, but she could not move. An idea had begun to form in her mind. When she finally did move, it was at a run. She was at her brother's house in minutes. She didn't even explain what was going on, just ran into his room, flailed about trying to get out of her clothes and into his for a minute. Then she was back downstairs, and pulled a kitchen knife right out of her sister-in-law's hands, sliced her long hair off, dropped hair and knife on the floor, and ran back out, stumbling into boots along the way. The army procession was almost gone now, and she ran after them, yelling and shouting to wait up, waving her arms frantically until finally someone looked back. Thanks to her impossibly small chest size, what they saw was a scrawny boy who wanted to show his patriotism and join the army.

It didn't take long for them to agree.

By the time anyone had figured out that Tak was female, she had already led many armies into battle, and had earned herself title of General. That was about when they decided that her gender didn't matter, and kept the fact that they knew from her. This didn't cause them to just let any broad into the army, but it meant that certain women might be good to have in the army. Better than certain men, anyway.

Tak was on leave when the attack happened. She had been visiting her family for the first time in four years, and her mother was very happy to see her. She didn't hear about the tragedy until she returned to the castle to find it in ruins. That was when she realized that she had two options. Option one, let her entire family be slaughtered by the new king, or option two, serve under him and have her family moved to status of importance. It didn't take long to decide. Who would hesitate? Her family was important, and she would be protecting the same people. That was what she told herself day after day. She told herself that until she believed it. Whenever she doubted something, she told herself that it was all for her family.

It always worked.
Other: Tak is very much single, despite attempts from just about every man she knows, including her adversaries. This confuses to a far extent, but she doesn't press it.
Appearance:Tak stands at about 5'6", very tall for a woman at that time period. She has a sturdy build, and there's no hiding the muscles that indicate her strength. Her body is scarred with the labor she toiled through to achieve power.

Tak has short purple hair, which reaches to flaunt out under the jaw. Her eyes are also purple, and she has dark circles under her eyes, from countless nights staying up and planning attacks.

Tak is not a particularly attractive woman, but there's something about her that makes all people glance twice. Perhaps it is her confidence, or her loyalty, or perhaps it is the majestic way she holds herself, which commands your respect. Or maybe it's the kindness under her rough skin. Whatever it is, it makes her look beautiful.

Gaia Username: chewylove
Name:Sky
Real name:Unknown, given nickname
Age:Sky's best guess is 16, but somewhere around there
Gender:Male
Personality/bio:Timid and broken, Sky's only ambition in life is to not get beaten and to go by unnoticed without incident. A servant to the Gailor royals since as long as he can remember, Sky was sold as a child for his poor and starving family. In a time of famine and war, his parent's only option was to trade their someteenth child to the courts for a meager amount. Sky has known nothing but work; his childhood wasted to years of mopping, brooming and grooming. Lately his duties have extended to attending to the prisoners of war and the dungeon, where he serves food and water to the unfortunates.
Weapon:A walking stick, but in Sky's mind it could be a staff.
Side: : Gailor
Other: Sky secretly aspires to make something of himself. He is named Sky for his habit of staring longingly at the clouds, imaging a better life.
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Gaia username:kurimusonchishio
Name: Saura Chi
Real name:Oishi Sakura
Age:15
Gender:female
Personality:Saura always looks like she's pissed off, in all truth though she's afraid that is she looks any other way she will be killed.
Weapon: Nibai Oujou
Side:Gailor
Bio:All that fills Saura's mind when she thinks of her past is blood. She was told that barbarians burned down her village.
Other: Saura blindly follows Gailor and his generals, she believes
that she was saved by Gailor's passing guard.
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