Post by Sakuya the White on Mar 10, 2012 0:36:57 GMT -5
Player: Josiah
Contact: PM this account
Intentions: Hero
Background
Name: Sakuya the White
Race: High Fey
Species: Wood (Cherry Blossom) Elf
Age: 2,327
Tier: 5
Social
Place of Birth: Konohana City, Kusanagi
Allegiances: The Dragon Knights
Aspirations: To seed the world with good people and watch them blossom
Nicknames: Sakuya, Sakuya the Princess, "Wait-who's-that," "Oh-no-not-her," "Ma'am-you're-not-supposed-to-be-here," "Security-stand-down"…
Titles: Dragon Knight, Knight Admiral
Relatives: None still alive
Significant Other: None
Mental
Personality: Sakuya's behavior is primarily characterized by two main traits: the first is her omnibenevolence ... the second is her issue with authority. In her youth, Sakuya would go to great lengths to help people, magically or otherwise, but experience has taught her that feeding a man a fish is all well and good one day, but leaves much desiring every day afterward. Most times, the best good comes by taking things slowly. She only has an eternity to burn. Now if only everyone else would just sit down and butt out, she'd make the world a much better place already.
Likes: Nature, growing things, living things, kindness, teaching magic to good people, helping people turn their lives around, appreciating ephemeral beauty
Dislikes: Pollution, evil, technology at the expense of life and/or nature (they're the same thing really), watching others grow old and die, having to fight or kill, governmental authority, people telling her what she can and can't do
Strengths: Sakuya is patient and understanding, and seen time and time again how people change over the course of their lives. She has great tolerance for people's failings, even as she endeavors to help them rise above it. She's gotten very good at training young mages and helping guide them in how to use their magical - and physical - abilities. Years spent accruing medical knowledge has seeped over into other areas. She knows how to strike where it hurts the most, or how to strike where the least damage is capable of debilitating a foe.
Weaknesses: Two millenia has significant impacts on a person's perspective. Her benevolence can sometimes give people the wrong idea about how close she is with someone. It is very hard for her to form any lasting relationships with mortals anymore, and even students who have known her for decades may only register as acquaintances in her mind. Her issue with authority has her shrugging off directions or commands from others, if not outright ignoring them. In her defense, she usually knows better and few possess the strength to make her do what she doesn't want to do, but this has gotten her in trouble with others on multiple occasions.
Physical
Major Details: white skin, black-green hair braided to her waist, white-pink irises, cherry blossoms in her hair, 5'9"
Appearance: Sakuya is a fair figure, tall and radiant, like the most noble of elves to walk out of a fairy-tale book. Her features are gentle and pristine, and somehow seems to radiate a certain glow of life. Some of her long hair - a green so dark its just shy of black - is gathered into a braid in the back, and cherry blossoms perpetually adorn her hair. The irises of her eyes are an inhuman white-pink.
Natural Abilities: As Fey, Sakuya is naturally stronger and more durable than a human being of her size.
Natural Traits: As Fey, Sakuya's senses are naturally sharper than a human being's, and she has little to fear from normal diseases.
Strengths: When 2000 years old you reach, look as good you will not. Drop a pair of zeroes - she looks closer to a woman in her late twenties and has better physical abilities than such a woman would in the first place. This surprises some people - but its only good for a quick surprise. Her movements are methodical, precise, and graceful - surefooted and balanced even in danger or combat. One can't live this long without picking up at least a few techniques.
Weaknesses: Despite the physical aptitude of the immortal fey, she has only a cursory facility for martial combat. She rarely resorts to combat in general, and physical combat even less so. One on one, without magic, a trained warrior could best her easily, and any person who claims to be strong would probably be stronger indeed. It would be better for her to keep her distance and rely on her vast magical potential than any martial skill she could profess to have.
Magical
Specializations:
- Tier 1: Mental (Plants), Proficiency 5.5. Sakuya is able to create, alter and manipulate plant life with her magic.
- Tier 2: Material (Plants), Proficiency 5.5. Sakuya is able to draw energy from all the growing things around her.
- Tier 3: Written (Ofuda), Proficiency 6.
- Tier 4: Mental (Healing), Proficiency 6.
- Tier 5: Mental (Psychic), Proficiency 5.5.
Visual Display: When using her magic, she gives off a mostly-white, pink-tinted glow like wispy fire.
Special Abilities: Enhanced Speed, Empathy, Alternate Sense (Magic), Foresight, Immune to Cold, Immune to Shock
Bonus Special Abilities: Immune to Fear, Familiar (Partial, Item: Staff), Psychometry, Teleportation
Unique Abilities: Sakuya does not need to eat as she gains sustenance from the natural world around her, from the sun and air and earth. She does not physically tire like mortal creatures either, and her very presence tends to bleed a little life back into the natural world around her.
Strengths: Like many High Fey, magic is in her being. This is easy to see from her abilities, as many of them are entirely mental and serve to connect her deeply to living things - flora and fauna alike. Millenia of experience has given her almost perfect control of her abilities and given her an almost encyclopedic knowledge of how to use them. She's a much better telepath then telekinetic, however, and a better mage of the growing things than either else. If push comes to shove, she can very easily wage a living forest's war on multiple fronts - and win.
Weaknesses: Sakuya exists in a symbiotic relationship with nature. Sparse, diseased, or polluted lands harm her deeply, and hurting the land hurts her, leading to her avoiding cities and foundries as much as deserts. Though her powers are extremely potent, they are not without limits. Mental magic is draining - she just has much larger reserves to drain. Simultaneously, her styles of Mental magic are also rather specific and lack the "tricks" of someone who uses Spoken and must resort to the raw-power method of overcoming some mages. The Ofuda techniques she learned from her ancestral home helps to bring up some of her lacking, but this is a time-consuming art and is not suitable for emergencies.
Inventory
Mundane: A badge displaying her membership in the Dragon Knights, white kimono, red hakama, a dark blue haori with silver dragons embroidered on the back and arms, a "sellfown"
Magical:
Staff of the Winged Tree - Written/Material (Activated). A six foot length of green wood leading into a curving hoop at the top. Metal rings are threaded through the hoop and clang with movement. At the top of the hoop is a angled green gem like a spearhead, and at the sides are two wooden wings. The staff serves as a focus for her powers and helps her to connect with a greater area around her simultaneously.
History
2000+ years could hardly fit in a few paragraphs. Even those who know her best, who've had hundreds of years themselves to gleam information from her history still only have part of the story. It's well known she was born on Kusanagi - or what would be known as Kusanagi today. In her mind, she simply calls it home.
Little is known - or said - about her childhood. A Noble Fey by birth, she was a magical being from the beginning, and her connection to the natural world was only strengthened with age. Yet from the beginning, she was also a helpful soul, aiding the human population's early agricultural efforts with a more than a little bit of magic. The locals started calling her a "princess" as a term of endearment.
She was attached to the land, and attached to the people. She cared for the short-lived, for the ephemeral more than the lasting, the unchanging - a trait that separated her from some of her fellow Fey who measured time in decades. She still does, even now, but it was this trait that bred in her a sense of wanderlust, a desire to see more of the world.
She traveled. For many ages, she wandered the world, yearning to see it, seeking to know it, and by knowing, loving. She was just one small Fey on one small planet, but she tried to make a difference wherever she went. A little difference can go a long way, and as she gave what help she could, she grew stronger, both as a person and as a mage. When she returned to Kusanagi to stay, she was hardly recognizable as the same Fey who enjoyed making their gardens flower.
Throughout the centuries, Sakuya has been compelled to go to war on several occasions. Most were passing events in which offered her aid as a healer first, and as a battle mage only when good was at stake. However, it was the expulsion of the Upper Kingdom from her homeland that put her at odds with the people. She didn't think it was good, to put up a barrier and lock themselves away, pretending like no one else existed, or to expel the Beastfolk that had come to live there from what was their home, too, now.
But one can't force what is right on an entire population when they have their mind set on something else. It would have been a patchwork fix, and if there was one thing she's learned, its that patchwork fixes come undone. Kusanagi was only a small fraction of the world, and though it pained her, she could do more good on the other side. She left Kusanagi in protest.
It was this same attitude that led her to joining with several other Tier 5 mages in the wake of the World War. Sharing each other's ideals of compassion and honor, and realizing the tenuous state of the politics that ruled the planet, the group decided that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts - that working together, mages like them could accomplish vastly more than they could apart.
Sakuya became one of the founding members of the Dragon Knights, and even now, she is still technically a part of the leading Council. However, Sakuya still has issues with following other's directions or playing by other people's rules. She's spent two millenia alive, and she's still a maverick, doing her own thing. She's rarely seen around the Dragon Keep these days, but she does stop by from time to time - usually with a young mage in tow to be inducted into the order. The rest of the time ... she's wherever she thinks she can do the most good today.
Contact: PM this account
Intentions: Hero
Background
Name: Sakuya the White
Race: High Fey
Species: Wood (Cherry Blossom) Elf
Age: 2,327
Tier: 5
Social
Place of Birth: Konohana City, Kusanagi
Allegiances: The Dragon Knights
Aspirations: To seed the world with good people and watch them blossom
Nicknames: Sakuya, Sakuya the Princess, "Wait-who's-that," "Oh-no-not-her," "Ma'am-you're-not-supposed-to-be-here," "Security-stand-down"…
Titles: Dragon Knight, Knight Admiral
Relatives: None still alive
Significant Other: None
Mental
Personality: Sakuya's behavior is primarily characterized by two main traits: the first is her omnibenevolence ... the second is her issue with authority. In her youth, Sakuya would go to great lengths to help people, magically or otherwise, but experience has taught her that feeding a man a fish is all well and good one day, but leaves much desiring every day afterward. Most times, the best good comes by taking things slowly. She only has an eternity to burn. Now if only everyone else would just sit down and butt out, she'd make the world a much better place already.
Likes: Nature, growing things, living things, kindness, teaching magic to good people, helping people turn their lives around, appreciating ephemeral beauty
Dislikes: Pollution, evil, technology at the expense of life and/or nature (they're the same thing really), watching others grow old and die, having to fight or kill, governmental authority, people telling her what she can and can't do
Strengths: Sakuya is patient and understanding, and seen time and time again how people change over the course of their lives. She has great tolerance for people's failings, even as she endeavors to help them rise above it. She's gotten very good at training young mages and helping guide them in how to use their magical - and physical - abilities. Years spent accruing medical knowledge has seeped over into other areas. She knows how to strike where it hurts the most, or how to strike where the least damage is capable of debilitating a foe.
Weaknesses: Two millenia has significant impacts on a person's perspective. Her benevolence can sometimes give people the wrong idea about how close she is with someone. It is very hard for her to form any lasting relationships with mortals anymore, and even students who have known her for decades may only register as acquaintances in her mind. Her issue with authority has her shrugging off directions or commands from others, if not outright ignoring them. In her defense, she usually knows better and few possess the strength to make her do what she doesn't want to do, but this has gotten her in trouble with others on multiple occasions.
Physical
Major Details: white skin, black-green hair braided to her waist, white-pink irises, cherry blossoms in her hair, 5'9"
Appearance: Sakuya is a fair figure, tall and radiant, like the most noble of elves to walk out of a fairy-tale book. Her features are gentle and pristine, and somehow seems to radiate a certain glow of life. Some of her long hair - a green so dark its just shy of black - is gathered into a braid in the back, and cherry blossoms perpetually adorn her hair. The irises of her eyes are an inhuman white-pink.
Natural Abilities: As Fey, Sakuya is naturally stronger and more durable than a human being of her size.
Natural Traits: As Fey, Sakuya's senses are naturally sharper than a human being's, and she has little to fear from normal diseases.
Strengths: When 2000 years old you reach, look as good you will not. Drop a pair of zeroes - she looks closer to a woman in her late twenties and has better physical abilities than such a woman would in the first place. This surprises some people - but its only good for a quick surprise. Her movements are methodical, precise, and graceful - surefooted and balanced even in danger or combat. One can't live this long without picking up at least a few techniques.
Weaknesses: Despite the physical aptitude of the immortal fey, she has only a cursory facility for martial combat. She rarely resorts to combat in general, and physical combat even less so. One on one, without magic, a trained warrior could best her easily, and any person who claims to be strong would probably be stronger indeed. It would be better for her to keep her distance and rely on her vast magical potential than any martial skill she could profess to have.
Magical
Specializations:
- Tier 1: Mental (Plants), Proficiency 5.5. Sakuya is able to create, alter and manipulate plant life with her magic.
- Tier 2: Material (Plants), Proficiency 5.5. Sakuya is able to draw energy from all the growing things around her.
- Tier 3: Written (Ofuda), Proficiency 6.
- Tier 4: Mental (Healing), Proficiency 6.
- Tier 5: Mental (Psychic), Proficiency 5.5.
Visual Display: When using her magic, she gives off a mostly-white, pink-tinted glow like wispy fire.
Special Abilities: Enhanced Speed, Empathy, Alternate Sense (Magic), Foresight, Immune to Cold, Immune to Shock
Bonus Special Abilities: Immune to Fear, Familiar (Partial, Item: Staff), Psychometry, Teleportation
Unique Abilities: Sakuya does not need to eat as she gains sustenance from the natural world around her, from the sun and air and earth. She does not physically tire like mortal creatures either, and her very presence tends to bleed a little life back into the natural world around her.
Strengths: Like many High Fey, magic is in her being. This is easy to see from her abilities, as many of them are entirely mental and serve to connect her deeply to living things - flora and fauna alike. Millenia of experience has given her almost perfect control of her abilities and given her an almost encyclopedic knowledge of how to use them. She's a much better telepath then telekinetic, however, and a better mage of the growing things than either else. If push comes to shove, she can very easily wage a living forest's war on multiple fronts - and win.
Weaknesses: Sakuya exists in a symbiotic relationship with nature. Sparse, diseased, or polluted lands harm her deeply, and hurting the land hurts her, leading to her avoiding cities and foundries as much as deserts. Though her powers are extremely potent, they are not without limits. Mental magic is draining - she just has much larger reserves to drain. Simultaneously, her styles of Mental magic are also rather specific and lack the "tricks" of someone who uses Spoken and must resort to the raw-power method of overcoming some mages. The Ofuda techniques she learned from her ancestral home helps to bring up some of her lacking, but this is a time-consuming art and is not suitable for emergencies.
Inventory
Mundane: A badge displaying her membership in the Dragon Knights, white kimono, red hakama, a dark blue haori with silver dragons embroidered on the back and arms, a "sellfown"
Magical:
Staff of the Winged Tree - Written/Material (Activated). A six foot length of green wood leading into a curving hoop at the top. Metal rings are threaded through the hoop and clang with movement. At the top of the hoop is a angled green gem like a spearhead, and at the sides are two wooden wings. The staff serves as a focus for her powers and helps her to connect with a greater area around her simultaneously.
History
2000+ years could hardly fit in a few paragraphs. Even those who know her best, who've had hundreds of years themselves to gleam information from her history still only have part of the story. It's well known she was born on Kusanagi - or what would be known as Kusanagi today. In her mind, she simply calls it home.
Little is known - or said - about her childhood. A Noble Fey by birth, she was a magical being from the beginning, and her connection to the natural world was only strengthened with age. Yet from the beginning, she was also a helpful soul, aiding the human population's early agricultural efforts with a more than a little bit of magic. The locals started calling her a "princess" as a term of endearment.
She was attached to the land, and attached to the people. She cared for the short-lived, for the ephemeral more than the lasting, the unchanging - a trait that separated her from some of her fellow Fey who measured time in decades. She still does, even now, but it was this trait that bred in her a sense of wanderlust, a desire to see more of the world.
She traveled. For many ages, she wandered the world, yearning to see it, seeking to know it, and by knowing, loving. She was just one small Fey on one small planet, but she tried to make a difference wherever she went. A little difference can go a long way, and as she gave what help she could, she grew stronger, both as a person and as a mage. When she returned to Kusanagi to stay, she was hardly recognizable as the same Fey who enjoyed making their gardens flower.
Throughout the centuries, Sakuya has been compelled to go to war on several occasions. Most were passing events in which offered her aid as a healer first, and as a battle mage only when good was at stake. However, it was the expulsion of the Upper Kingdom from her homeland that put her at odds with the people. She didn't think it was good, to put up a barrier and lock themselves away, pretending like no one else existed, or to expel the Beastfolk that had come to live there from what was their home, too, now.
But one can't force what is right on an entire population when they have their mind set on something else. It would have been a patchwork fix, and if there was one thing she's learned, its that patchwork fixes come undone. Kusanagi was only a small fraction of the world, and though it pained her, she could do more good on the other side. She left Kusanagi in protest.
It was this same attitude that led her to joining with several other Tier 5 mages in the wake of the World War. Sharing each other's ideals of compassion and honor, and realizing the tenuous state of the politics that ruled the planet, the group decided that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts - that working together, mages like them could accomplish vastly more than they could apart.
Sakuya became one of the founding members of the Dragon Knights, and even now, she is still technically a part of the leading Council. However, Sakuya still has issues with following other's directions or playing by other people's rules. She's spent two millenia alive, and she's still a maverick, doing her own thing. She's rarely seen around the Dragon Keep these days, but she does stop by from time to time - usually with a young mage in tow to be inducted into the order. The rest of the time ... she's wherever she thinks she can do the most good today.