SEEKER of ALADEL : RPed by Kadevi
Name: Lorryn Sorayiis [lor-RIN soh-RAI-yis]
Class: Elemental Battle Mage [Water; Master-level]
Age: 28
Country: Aladel
Physical Description [ 1 ] & [ 2 ] : Aladel's foremost Rogue Mage is neither an extraordinarily beautiful woman, nor a hopelessly plain one. Her skin color is characteristic of that of the nomadic Border clans of Aladel - a pale bronze, just a shade darker than most of Aladel's native-born citizens. The planes of her face have the sharp angles common among her people, which are softened slightly from years of living a comfortable life in the Aladellan Palace. Her high cheekbones make what would normally be a fierce face much more attractive and feminine; she possesses gray almond-shaped eyes that are uncomfortably sharp to many. Lorryn has a small, pert nose, and rosy pink lips that smile little within the confines of the Palace grounds. Flowing black locks of hair are shorn just past her shoulders, framing a thoughtful, ponderous face; even when traveling under harsh conditions, they seem to arrange themselves perfectly, settling amiably just like the element of their mistress.
Even at full height, Lorryn Sorayiis stands at a mere 5'6" - rather tall for one of her nomadic blood, but rather short among Aladel's people. However, even among the taller citizenry of Aladel, she commands respect and admiration from many, due both to her undeniable skills of the arcane and her strange, foreign beauty. Her body is honed with the art of close-quarter knife fighting and horseback riding; while she would never win a contest of strength, her slim, petite body disguises the surprising strength hidden in the toned muscles of her body. Her chest, waist, and hips are all in proportion to the size of her body - and while her body may not be that of a temptress', her cool, detached manner, dreamy gray eyes, and toned body make her the subject of many daydreams.
Lorryn's sole vanity consists of two pieces of jewelry - a phoenix-shaped piece of lapis lazuli hanging on a thin silver chain around her neck, and a thin silver band on her left hand with the two ends curled elegantly around a small oval of lapis lazuli. Her only physical weapons, a set of throwing knives, are hidden and strapped all over her body - at the side of her boots, at her wrists, behind her neck, and attached to her belt. The simple but elegant knives are made of the finest steel money can buy, with the simplest of black hilts. Her outfit consists of an ankle-length robe of navy blue tailored to fit her body, made of material that stretches with her every movement. The sleeveless garment conforms to her body until her hips, where it falls in the slightest of angles away from her legs. The material is cut several inches above the knees both in front and back, such that the bottom half of the garment is simply two pieces of fabric at once elegant yet practical. Beneath this unique robe, which is hemmed in white, Lorryn wears a long-sleeved white tunic, white breeches, and knee-high black leather boots well worn with use. When appearing formally at Court functions, she wears a more elaborately embroidered version of the same type of clothes, in the same colors or with inverted colors.
History: Lorryn Sorayiis was born as a child of one of the many nomadic Border Clans. From an early age, she showed an amazing delicacy and control with magical energy, and soon became apprenticed to both the shaman and elderly mage of her particular clan. As she grew older, her control and skill with magic become steadier, more adept - her education was such that it was HER task to learn her magic. As a result of such focused training, her skill increased by leaps and bounds. Aside from magic, Lorryn was taught to ride a horse (as were all the other Clan children), learn the language of her people as well as that of Vayulla, and survival in the wilderness. By the time she was eighteen, she was a high-level mage (the equivalent of a higher-level Sorcerer in Vayulla's Academies), an expert tracker and horsewoman, and well learned in the common language of Vayulla. Lorryn also showed a steady, deft control with small blades, and in addition to her other studies learned to use throwing knives with deadly accuracy.
Disaster struck while all the Clans gathered to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Several contingents of Aladel's army swept over their campsite and killed anybody who attempted to resist. The Clanspeople defended themselves and fought back bravely - but caught unguarded in the midst of celebration, nobody was ready for a small army that arrived cloaked under the cover of darkness and magic. Very few people survived, for every last of the nomads fought bitterly until they themselves were killed. Lorryn, having never drawn blood herself, was sent into magic-shock by the slaughter occuring before her very eyes and fell unconscious; however, her magic had reacted instinctively and created a powerful, impenetrable physical barrier that prevented even the Master Mage of the regiment from breaking it. Quite impressed, said Master Mage ordered the rest of the army to return to the capital; alone, he waited for the bereft, grieving young mage to wake, and convinced her to return with him to the capital, under his protection as his student.
As it turned out, this Master Mage was in actuality the Palace's Master of the Arcane - the most powerful mage in the kingdom of Aladel. That he had been thwarted by this mere slip of a girl impressed him to no end, and he was convinced that the Fates had seen fit to intervene and keep her alive. Master Mage Kastadel placed her into an Academy for mages in the capital, where the instructors attempted to teach her spell magic. Having learned to use her magic with free magic all her life, Lorryn was quite terrible at it - and remains so to this day. Still, despite her apparent failures with spell magic, Lorryn gained many new, innovative ideas about spell-casting with rune magic, and applied all this new knowledge to her own free magic.
At the age of 22, after rescuing the battered regiment ambushed during what was supposed to be a 'safe' patrol, Lorryn was brought into the Palace as Master Mage Kastadel's only apprentice. She began attending Council meetings with him, as well as socializing among Aladel's social elite. Kastadel stopped trying to force her to do spell magic - she showed absolutely no aptitude for learning chants or drawing runes - and instead gave her guidelines and tasks to perform, and allowed her to use free magic to accomplish these spells. In this way, Lorryn's ability grew even more. In the past two to three years, she has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful mages of Aladel among her peers. Though Lorryn still remembers the sad story of her people, any childish thoughts of revenge had disappeared within the year she was moved to the capital - after all, what could one mere slip of a girl do against an entire kingdom?
Reason: Lorryn was the first and only apprentice that Master Mage Kastadel had ever taken, a fact that brought her to the King's attention. After this, the King kept close tabs on Lorryn through his Master of the Arcane; after she showed an aptitude in unraveling the bothersome trap spells set by bandit and pirate sorcerers, he began sending her out with any patrol that was being sent to take care of either for his own amusement. When she began successfully dealing with her targets on each group, the King became impressed, such that when he thought to put together a group of Seekers, he chose Lorryn Sorayiis as the leader upon Kastadel's recommendation.
Lorryn had actually learned about the Prophecy and Amulets from her Clan's slain shaman, when she was younger; the tale of the Light Phoenix was a favorite campfire tale, but also an old legend passed down through each Clan's shaman. Lorryn has refused to use her Gift of magic, something bestowed upon her by her Gods, to shed blood and war against innocents - that is why she is never sent onto the battlefield against Morovia's armies (a request Kastadel has honored), but instead takes care of bandits and pirates who plague Aladel's people. Knowing first hand what warfare has done to many families and people both Aladellan and not, Lorryn has secretly pledged in her heart to seek these Amulets, and find out the truth about these ancient artifacts of magic. If they do, indeed, have the power to return peace to Vayulla, Lorryn wishes to find a way to make it so.
Class: Elemental Battle Mage [Water; Master-level]
Age: 28
Country: Aladel
Physical Description [ 1 ] & [ 2 ] : Aladel's foremost Rogue Mage is neither an extraordinarily beautiful woman, nor a hopelessly plain one. Her skin color is characteristic of that of the nomadic Border clans of Aladel - a pale bronze, just a shade darker than most of Aladel's native-born citizens. The planes of her face have the sharp angles common among her people, which are softened slightly from years of living a comfortable life in the Aladellan Palace. Her high cheekbones make what would normally be a fierce face much more attractive and feminine; she possesses gray almond-shaped eyes that are uncomfortably sharp to many. Lorryn has a small, pert nose, and rosy pink lips that smile little within the confines of the Palace grounds. Flowing black locks of hair are shorn just past her shoulders, framing a thoughtful, ponderous face; even when traveling under harsh conditions, they seem to arrange themselves perfectly, settling amiably just like the element of their mistress.
Even at full height, Lorryn Sorayiis stands at a mere 5'6" - rather tall for one of her nomadic blood, but rather short among Aladel's people. However, even among the taller citizenry of Aladel, she commands respect and admiration from many, due both to her undeniable skills of the arcane and her strange, foreign beauty. Her body is honed with the art of close-quarter knife fighting and horseback riding; while she would never win a contest of strength, her slim, petite body disguises the surprising strength hidden in the toned muscles of her body. Her chest, waist, and hips are all in proportion to the size of her body - and while her body may not be that of a temptress', her cool, detached manner, dreamy gray eyes, and toned body make her the subject of many daydreams.
Lorryn's sole vanity consists of two pieces of jewelry - a phoenix-shaped piece of lapis lazuli hanging on a thin silver chain around her neck, and a thin silver band on her left hand with the two ends curled elegantly around a small oval of lapis lazuli. Her only physical weapons, a set of throwing knives, are hidden and strapped all over her body - at the side of her boots, at her wrists, behind her neck, and attached to her belt. The simple but elegant knives are made of the finest steel money can buy, with the simplest of black hilts. Her outfit consists of an ankle-length robe of navy blue tailored to fit her body, made of material that stretches with her every movement. The sleeveless garment conforms to her body until her hips, where it falls in the slightest of angles away from her legs. The material is cut several inches above the knees both in front and back, such that the bottom half of the garment is simply two pieces of fabric at once elegant yet practical. Beneath this unique robe, which is hemmed in white, Lorryn wears a long-sleeved white tunic, white breeches, and knee-high black leather boots well worn with use. When appearing formally at Court functions, she wears a more elaborately embroidered version of the same type of clothes, in the same colors or with inverted colors.
History: Lorryn Sorayiis was born as a child of one of the many nomadic Border Clans. From an early age, she showed an amazing delicacy and control with magical energy, and soon became apprenticed to both the shaman and elderly mage of her particular clan. As she grew older, her control and skill with magic become steadier, more adept - her education was such that it was HER task to learn her magic. As a result of such focused training, her skill increased by leaps and bounds. Aside from magic, Lorryn was taught to ride a horse (as were all the other Clan children), learn the language of her people as well as that of Vayulla, and survival in the wilderness. By the time she was eighteen, she was a high-level mage (the equivalent of a higher-level Sorcerer in Vayulla's Academies), an expert tracker and horsewoman, and well learned in the common language of Vayulla. Lorryn also showed a steady, deft control with small blades, and in addition to her other studies learned to use throwing knives with deadly accuracy.
Disaster struck while all the Clans gathered to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Several contingents of Aladel's army swept over their campsite and killed anybody who attempted to resist. The Clanspeople defended themselves and fought back bravely - but caught unguarded in the midst of celebration, nobody was ready for a small army that arrived cloaked under the cover of darkness and magic. Very few people survived, for every last of the nomads fought bitterly until they themselves were killed. Lorryn, having never drawn blood herself, was sent into magic-shock by the slaughter occuring before her very eyes and fell unconscious; however, her magic had reacted instinctively and created a powerful, impenetrable physical barrier that prevented even the Master Mage of the regiment from breaking it. Quite impressed, said Master Mage ordered the rest of the army to return to the capital; alone, he waited for the bereft, grieving young mage to wake, and convinced her to return with him to the capital, under his protection as his student.
As it turned out, this Master Mage was in actuality the Palace's Master of the Arcane - the most powerful mage in the kingdom of Aladel. That he had been thwarted by this mere slip of a girl impressed him to no end, and he was convinced that the Fates had seen fit to intervene and keep her alive. Master Mage Kastadel placed her into an Academy for mages in the capital, where the instructors attempted to teach her spell magic. Having learned to use her magic with free magic all her life, Lorryn was quite terrible at it - and remains so to this day. Still, despite her apparent failures with spell magic, Lorryn gained many new, innovative ideas about spell-casting with rune magic, and applied all this new knowledge to her own free magic.
At the age of 22, after rescuing the battered regiment ambushed during what was supposed to be a 'safe' patrol, Lorryn was brought into the Palace as Master Mage Kastadel's only apprentice. She began attending Council meetings with him, as well as socializing among Aladel's social elite. Kastadel stopped trying to force her to do spell magic - she showed absolutely no aptitude for learning chants or drawing runes - and instead gave her guidelines and tasks to perform, and allowed her to use free magic to accomplish these spells. In this way, Lorryn's ability grew even more. In the past two to three years, she has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful mages of Aladel among her peers. Though Lorryn still remembers the sad story of her people, any childish thoughts of revenge had disappeared within the year she was moved to the capital - after all, what could one mere slip of a girl do against an entire kingdom?
Reason: Lorryn was the first and only apprentice that Master Mage Kastadel had ever taken, a fact that brought her to the King's attention. After this, the King kept close tabs on Lorryn through his Master of the Arcane; after she showed an aptitude in unraveling the bothersome trap spells set by bandit and pirate sorcerers, he began sending her out with any patrol that was being sent to take care of either for his own amusement. When she began successfully dealing with her targets on each group, the King became impressed, such that when he thought to put together a group of Seekers, he chose Lorryn Sorayiis as the leader upon Kastadel's recommendation.
Lorryn had actually learned about the Prophecy and Amulets from her Clan's slain shaman, when she was younger; the tale of the Light Phoenix was a favorite campfire tale, but also an old legend passed down through each Clan's shaman. Lorryn has refused to use her Gift of magic, something bestowed upon her by her Gods, to shed blood and war against innocents - that is why she is never sent onto the battlefield against Morovia's armies (a request Kastadel has honored), but instead takes care of bandits and pirates who plague Aladel's people. Knowing first hand what warfare has done to many families and people both Aladellan and not, Lorryn has secretly pledged in her heart to seek these Amulets, and find out the truth about these ancient artifacts of magic. If they do, indeed, have the power to return peace to Vayulla, Lorryn wishes to find a way to make it so.
