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Full Name: Rhel'aa Akhiri
Age: 37 (17 in human terms)
Birthday: November 22nd
Appearance: Rhel'aa is a half-elf, albeit a very short one, and tends towards more of a stocky build. She’s very lightly tanned, but usually tends to burn in the sun. One of the most noticeable things about her is her blue and brown full heterochromia, which she likes to highlight with red facepaint on half her face because she thinks it makes her look cool. Because of her choice of weapon, she's quite muscular, and thanks to her path as a berserker, she has numerous scars, especially up and down her arms. Two scars are on her face, one cutting across her left eye (the blue one) and the other across her nose. Her black hair is in a pixie cut, save for two long strips of hair that frame either side of her face.
Her armor is similar to that of a Viking's. She wears a padded cloth tunic with a chainmail shirt and hard leather breastplate on top, styled to look like dragon scales. Her legs are covered with padded cloth pants, and long leather boots, trimmed with fur. She also sports a pair of old iron pauldrons, which she keeps polished and clean, though they are rather dented, and a pair of hard leather greaves. Rhel'aa's pride and joy is her greataxe, which she named Halfmoon. The giant hunk of steel she calls a weapon is double-edged, with the cutting side of the axe shaped sorta like a semicircle, if you squint. The handle is made of oak, carved with a pattern like ocean waves, and has a soft leather grip and simple iron pommel. The axe is usually slung across her back in a special holster for it.
She also carries around a simple leather rucksack, usually packed with potions and healing items, along with a needle, thread, and money pouch. It also contains a false bottom, where she stores most of her earnings and some treasures from her past, which she keeps carefully hidden.
Personality: Crude, greedy, and hot-headed are all very good adjectives for Rhel’aa. As are childish, prejudiced, and...loving, of all things. She has a fiery temper befitting her class, and she’s still very young for a half-elf, so it’s not a good combination, especially when combined with her greed. Just from talking to her, you'd think that her heart is set entirely on gold, and that she would not hesitate to do something for said gold unless it goes against her loose morals completely...and you'd mostly be right. A lot of her perceived cruelty comes from a simple inability to deal with people however, along with a lack of interest in trying to, especially when it comes to serious topics such as grief, anger, or sadness.Such things make her uncomfortable, and she'd much rather let her feelings out with her axe or her fists than her words. Despite her faults, however, Rhel’aa is pretty cheerful most of the time, has a sense of humor (albeit a bit of a crude one), and will be incredibly loyal to those she deems worthy of her respect, rejecting even gold if it means maintaining her relationship with them. She's also well-known for her carousing skills, and while you might not remember much of what happened the next morning, a party with Rhel'aa involved is certainly going to be a fun one. She's also a huge lesbian mess, though her idea of flirting is about on the same level of romance as the average frat boy's flirting. Stay classy, Rhellie.
Backstory: Rhel’aa is not native to the land she lives in, the kingdom of Castanea. She actually hails from an island nation called Morlé, located far to the south of Castanea, and known primarily for its rich island crops and cripplingly poor populace. She was born and raised in the slums of Morlé, along with her older sister and younger brother. She never knew her Elven mother, who left when she was about a year old, but her father was a caring man, though he was incredibly poor. The many years of starvation and hard labor took a toll on him, and he grew ill and passed shortly before her sister came of age. Because of this, her sister was forced to take on the role of caretaker of the family, and the long days of work soon took their toll on her too. Tired of seeing her family suffer, Rhel’aa saved up what meager money she could and purchased her greataxe, as well as passage to Castanea, lured by the promises of a better life as an adventurer. When she arrived, she was bitterly disappointed, but resolved to do whatever she could to earn her keep. Her upbringing taught her to value any bit of gold she got, so she was resolute about working alone, taking on dangerous bounties and frivolous nobles' quests without so much as a healer to accompany her. She sends all but the bare minimum she needs to live back home to her family.
When asked about her backstory, however, she’s very secretive, usually crafting clever half-truths to avoid mentioning her family. If anybody found out about that, she feared, she’d be seen as just another desperate freelancer, not one who works an honest job to earn her gold. Instead, she claims that she hails from Rumport, the port city that she arrived in, and was raised an orphan on a pirate ship, or something similarly unprovable.
Relationships:
- Daraen Marchand: Rhel’aa’s girlfriend. The two have an open relationship and don’t see each other often, due to Dara’s work as a legionnaire, but they do their best to make things work. Rhel’aa isn’t quite sure what the girl sees in her, considering her to be far too kind to put up with all of her shortcomings, but she loves her nonetheless and does her best to impress her.
Skills:
- Rhel'aa can drink most people under the table, though she won't do so if the drink of choice is mead - it gives her the worst hangovers.
- Highly skilled in almost all of the languages of her realm, if you count "knows the best swears" as highly skilled.
- Has extensive working knowledge with most of the monsters and beasts in her land, she can usually figure out how much gold a creature's part could net her just from looking at it for a few minutes.
- Very skilled with her axe, as well as an above average proficiency in fistfighting and some skill with a knife.
- Knows how to sew.
Quirks:
- Rhel'aa absolutely despises mages, particularly healers. She views them as cowards, unwilling to actually work hard to fight for their money. Healers are the worst of the lot in her eyes, since they don't even bother fighting; they just waltz about, defying the laws of nature with their magic, and then take all the credit. It takes a lot to get her to trust any kind of mage.
- Rhel’aa doesn't respect a lot of places, but bars are a special exception. She gets very upset if a bar is damaged in any way, even if it's something as simple as a broken glass.
- It’s hard to pin Rhel’aa down. She adopts a very Elvish philosophy when it comes to bedding mortals: hit it and forget it, because they don’t live long enough to bother getting attached to. This can, and has, gotten her into trouble when she encounters a former partner.
