Post by Shokande on Nov 27, 2023 1:05:34 GMT
"You’ll hold the heart of the universe in your hands, feel it flowing over you, you’ll know true love…and then you’ll lose everything."
Name: Tamura Zelektra
Titles: Divine Shield, Aspect of Tiamat
Age: Late adolescence
Gender: Female
Race: Sun Elf
Height: 6'1"
Eye Color: Silver-gold
Hair: Golden blonde
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Appearance: Tamura is a Sun Elf, an offshoot of the High Elf race. She has the bronze-colored skin, liquid gold eyes and golden blonde hair common in her people. She's also physically taller and stronger than the average High Elf due to both her heritage and physical training she's undergone. She's still relatively young by elven standards with an adolescent complexion that has yet to experience the rigors and challenges that are to come for her. Although she isn't considered the most beautiful and fair among elvenkind, Tamura is still incredibly attractive, especially to other peoples. Tamura prefers clothing that was at once beautiful and understated, with subdued colors like blue or green favored over bolder hues. In battle, she wears a beautiful mithril plate armor with bits of gold and mithril woven into the armor in subtle patterns so as not to come off flashy or ostentatious. Similarly, her jewelry (amulet, rings and earrings) are simple in appearance but exquisitely complex both in construction and design.
Alignment: Lawful Good. As a paladin, Tamura is sworn to a sacred oath that represents her beliefs and core values. This oath calls upon her to battle the forces of evil and defend justice wherever she could, though not to the extent of religious devotion that many veteran paladins exhibit. Given that Sun Elves are orderly by nature as well as her rigorous training and studies, she has a powerful sense of right and wrong. This can lead to her seeing many things in the world in terms of black and white, which isn't always ideal in a situation. Tamura is also very outspoken and opinionated in her views. Combine that with her relative youth and she can almost come off as haughty and arrogant like most Sun Elves. That being said, she is incredibly loyal almost to a fault to those she cares about most and will do the utmost to protect them. Like the shield she represents, she is unwavering and unbreaking in her conviction.
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Armor:
---Essence of the Legacy---
- Ultrax, The Last Guardian –
Weapons:
- Sacred longsword (needs a name) –
Paraphernalia:
- None
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Powers, Abilities, & Skills:
- Fey Ancestry – Tamura's elven heritage grants her greater vision in the dark, immunity to sleep effects and greater resistance to charm effects. As a High Elf, she's also attuned to the arcane so is able to specialize in one type of arcane art unlike a sorcerer or wizard who would be able to specialize in multiple schools and types of arcane magic.
- Channel Divinity – Like all paladins, Tamura possesses the ability to funnel the power of the gods through her own body. This provides her access to a number of abilities, such as turning undead and other dark creatures or increasing the power of her attacks. For instance, she can expend some of her divine power to enhance an attack with a divine smite that channeled positive energy into the attack which uses her sword as a conduit.
- Lay on Hands – Tamura is also trained in healing, though to a lesser extent than a typical healer like a cleric or priest. Lay on Hands is an ability that instantly heals the minor wounds of herself or an ally. Tamura's connection to the divine also gives her immunity to practically all disease and allows her to exude auras of courage and protection that make her and her allies immune to fear and more resistant to the effects of mental or physical stress. Although not yet fully trained on it, she is currently in the process of learning how to use her divine power to dispel the effect of a negative spell on herself or an ally.
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Inspiration:
- Tamura's base archetype is a high elven paladin, inspired by high elves from Lord of the Rings, Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons and The Elder Scrolls.
- Her origins are in the Western Imperium, where she and her half-sister Zaravanna are students under Hargarth Deathskull. She and her sister share the same father.
- Tamura is more of your typical orderly, lawful good type that wants to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. However, she still possesses that youthful optimism that will be severely tested later on in the story.
- She's a core member in the group of heroes called the Legacy, her piece of Legacy appropriately being the Shield.
- Her storyline will be tied to an ancient prophecy around the dark dragon Tiamat.
