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Lysethiel(Original concept):
A Elven princess from underhill, which isnt rare, almost all of them have royal blood ties, she bored with the politics of both the Seelie and unseelie courts decided to leave underhill as she knew it. She wantered into the mistlands, the underdeveloped lands of underhill and found a far unused spot and formed a small kingdom there.
She then wandered to the world above and took to thievery in a gang of rouge changelings who used their magic for ill gotten gains and their glamours to get into poorly guarded homes.

Well eventually Lyse grew bored with this since it was so much snatch and run tactics, and she discovered the harm it was actually doing. They stole from the poor because of its ease, she wanted to do harm to those who thought they better then her.
She started thieving from the rich, finding thrill in bypassing security, an befuddling the humans. She eventually commissioned the building of a magic and science fused ship she named the dreamchaser.


Elfhame Dreamchaser(original concept):
A floating airfortress Captained by Lysethiel.
The ship its self is a fusion of magic and science, allowing for attacks of both natures. From bullets, bombs, and missles to fireballs, lightning, and other magic.
The ship houses three seperate sections, the two side hulls and the main hull.
Inside the main hull is a portal to underhill, linked to a castle village hidden in the mistlands of underhill, this is Lysethiel's "kingdom".

The ship is capable of landing and taking off from water and sailing the seas and skies. It however due to its size and shape it can not land very effectively on land.

It contains several small transport fighters called Stormbringers.

Stormbringer(original concept):
Several small transport and fighter ship hybrids onboard the Dreamchaser.
They are speedy ships capable of going up to speeds of mach three, the ships speed and normally low flightpaths is why its called the stormbringer, sounding like thunder at top speed.

The ship has a capacity of 15 people, counting the piolet and copiolet.

I mentioned them as original concepts because they are what i originally thought of as a story not related to this comic. They can be rethought, edited, or conceptually changed, just gives a kind of neat base to work off.

A lot of people in this thread/contributing to this comic seem to be forgetting something; that it is a quild webcomic. As such it takes place in the guild setting - nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. That means, as the Cap'n has said himself, this it is not a fantasy setting. Nor is it one where the creators of this comic have much freedom to dictate what comprises that setting. But this is not something that I should later see anyone complaining about - you volunteered for the guild webcomic after all, in the quild webcomic thread.

Despite this, I see an elven floating city. Not only fantasy, but a second floating city in a world currently occupied by only one, and with airships capable ofg mach 3. Faster than many planes we have around today. This is not to mock the ideas, and I apolgise for picking on this example, but it is the most recent, but what is proposed there is so far gone from the guild setting that to make sufficient modifications to make it in fitting would leave it unrecognisable.

Sir, I must protest, this setting is by no means set in the real world.
Based upon, perhaps, in so much as Victorian Britain came to be - but after that point, things are remarkably different. This setting is certainly no more based on the real world than a great many other Steampunk works (oft with no magic/fantasy to be found).

I meant not to cause chaos, as i had stated, the mentioned things where original concepts for my character and avatar.

I shared them as i thought it might give people an idea on how I envisioned my original creation, and perhaps allow ideas to flow freely on how to modify with similar story concept a character of this nature.

I had stated if anyone would want me to share the original concept for the creation of Lysethiel.

Had i known no one would actually read the bottom disclaimer, where i mentioned



I would never had then bothered to post it.

Elf Ear surgery
But like i said, im not saing she HAS to have magic, or be an elf exactly, its just how i wrote her up orginally, not related to the comic at all.
-sigh-

Maybe i should go.

I hate to re-iterate this, but this issue is not that some of the ideas being thrown around here are in no ways suitabel for any Steampunk setting, it's that they're not suitable for the guild setting. So I'd like to draw a close to the line of discussion. No magic. No near-magic. No elves. No genetic-freak elves. No body modification. The setting is not that advanced.

Now please, move on and carry on. I don't mean to be unpleasant but this is too much of a tangent.

The world of the Anchronism is on many levels similar to that of Victorian era, but one which has progressed technologically to capabilities which are similar to tech in the World War II era, perhaps a little more. All run by steam. Aether is still hypothetical too, but still studied seriously.

First note:
Considering the statement made saying:


which would make the dream chaser idea not that far off, dropping the portal to the other world from it.
link:
Lyse Wix site
On the site if you click the dreamchasers and stormbringer tabs you'll see conceptual deisngs i had when i created the character.

Second note:

The genetic modification of ones ears to a point isnt very technically advanced, as seen in th elink in my previous post, reposted Here original story here

Since its such a simple modification, in all technicallity, I dont see why it wouldnt be acceptable.
As for the reason it would be done: Cause Fear.

I'll go into the idea that spawned in my head for the pointed ears specifically for the Lysette/Lysethiel. Not necessarily for all the pirates. Keep in mind, this is only an idea, a thought.

Elves where still loosely believed in this time, with Shakespeares midsummer nights dream, the respawn of telling the stories of the Tuatha De Dannan.
Elves have always been a fair representation into the world of the unknown for people.
So forget the idea of her being an elf, I get it. But the pointed ears may be neat, for the reason of fear.
Heres how, you live in world of technology with ideas of elves and the unknown, even if not proven still haunt dreams and personal fantasies, something that may have once been but never seen now.
A pirate crew appears led by a lithe looking female with pointed ears, she strikes hard and fast at the city in that first strike. Bombs dropped with broken glass at the height of mid day, sparkling along with the bombs as they fall (Ie objects fall at the same rate after all) glittering in the light like magic. (Doesnt need to be drawn, but gives an idea on how a person could describe what they saw, also depending on defense capabilities, as unconventional as drawing mirror shards might be, if they are catching the light it can be distracting, or cause that one crucial light glare in the eye of a fighter aiming to stop the bombs.)

But I digress, She might just be considered weird or eccentric at first unless she has a reputation of not getting caught, or escaping whenever she was. Falling into line of mischievous and a trickster with pointed ears, all it would take is one news paper to make reference to elves before eventually people might start to believe she was one.

It doesn't need to happen that way, its a thought. As for her modified origins, be she pointed eared or not or claimed elf or not.

In real history in germany 1738, two women where executed as witches. Making the next part not unlikely in a world such as this from what i understand.

Lysette von Bohuslan's family grew up believing to be descended from Harald Fairhair, not royally so but be an illicit born child. The idea that blood of elves was passed along their family line.
(Historical reference ) (Thats the only time i will mention elves in this story concept below, incase the concept of the ear body mod is completly unacceptable)
Her parents where executed at age 13 for witchcraft, and she fled the country, dropping use of the "Von Bohuslan" from her name, simply calling herself Lysethiel (hiel means kept/held in german)
She took to thieving to survive, which isn't uncommon for youth with no parents, anywhere. She could remember her parents, the passed on heritage, and the love she had for them. She grew to hate organized government and laws, both for killing her parents and for trying to get her for simply trying to live. At age 15, still lanky and boyish, the lack of a proper diet keeping her undeveloped, she was taken in as an apprentice by a gang, they taught her many tricks of the trades of lockpicking, moving quietly, avoiding getting caught. The leader saw potential in her to be a great thief. But alas, this wasn't meant to be, one of the thief lords followers sold him out for amnesty and a whole lot of gold. Lysethiel was out when they police came, on returning to the hideout and spotted the police taking into custody the thief lord as well as most of the gang.
She smartly fled the scene, and the city, hopping onto a merchant boat in hopes to flee the country.
But fate seemed to be conspiring against her, the merchant ship was attacked by pirates and she was discovered in the cargo hold. Weapons, and lots of them. The pirates confiscated the weapons as well as her. She dressed as a boy was treated as one, she became a "cabinboy" and made to swab the deck, cook, serve the pirates at meal time. The captain was the first and thus made it his prerogative to be the only to discover that she wasn't a boy. He didn't tell the men, the crew and he being of the superstitious lot where a girl onboard was bad luck. At port at one of the pirate main ports she was sold to a tavern keeper, where she worked for a year, she was now 16 (1.5 years as a thief, .5 years on ship, 1 year as tavern aid)
And as unlikely as it may seem, the tavern owner, an older Women with gusto named Katie, took a fine liking to her. Turns out Katie was a Pirate, formerly called herself the Purity of the Seas. She chuckled when explaining this, as she purified the ships she robbed of their gold and stock. She taught Lysethiel how to fight with a sword, she had high hopes for her to be a pirate, treating her like a prodigal daughter. Katie passed on when Lysethiel turned 19 during a raid of the port by authorities, leaving a great sum of money, the deed to the Tavern, and the deed of her merchant ship. Lysethiel not able to bear the concept of losing her new found mother in a nearly same manner of her birth parents sold the tavern and swore revenge on the world. She took to pirating in full force, eventually upgrading to an airship so as to strike at the floating cities as well.

(nods a bit)
Ideas, thoughts, not completely developed. I just came up with all that on the spot...

However if you dont like it, dont want me to be a Pirate, etc. Thats fine.