Appearance

Physical Description

Zenrathi’s brown reddish skin is taut over her well honed muscles. She’s tall, even by a half-orc’s standard and looks like she's built to run. Brawny though not bulky, she moves with a surprising amount of grace and agility.

Body Features

Zenrathi’s curly mane of hair shines a brilliant orangish-red which darkens and fades to black at its ends. Her eyes are a soft maroon which transform to a piercing yellow when she's raging or shifted into her werewolf form. In this form her fur colorings are similar to a maned wolf, rich reds and oranges and a large black mane on the back of her neck and shoulders.

Facial Features

Zenrathi's elven blood is evident in the more angular shape of her face and her long pointed ears. She still has a traditionally orcish large and flat nose, with large white tusks protruding from her bottom lip. She has several little nicks and scars on her face which are over-shadowed by a large, jagged scar across her left cheek.

Identifying Characteristics

Her body is riddled with scars, the most iconic of these is an intentional circular pattern of scarification on her right arm which sprawls out across her chest and onto her left arm. Zen has a branded "z" on her left shoulder marking her has condemned. She later got more scarification patterns all across her shoulders to both hide and incorporate the condemned branding.
 
Her ear lobes are gauged which she frequently adorns with large animal teeth and bones. Zenrathi's pointed ears also have several piercings along the cartilage. She wears earrings made from bone, wood, and metal rings.

Apparel & Accessories

Zenrathi wears no armor and opts for simple clothing with linens, leathers, and furs. If possible, she enjoys wearing traditional orcish garb but also blends in with human clothing in settlements. One item of great significance is her wolf totem. Usually carved in the shape of a wolf's head and made from bone, Zenrathi uses it to center the rage she fights with as a barbarian.

Specialized Equipment

The hilt of Zenrathi's dagger is made from the bone of a warg she hunted herself. It's intricately carved with a beautiful design and holds high sentimental value. She also carries Wolf's Fang Greataxe, gifted to her by Zavnonth. This special axe is deceptively light and precise, adorned with hooked spikes.

Special abilities

Zenrathi has become ruthlessly effective at combining her natural born talents with the fighting styles she's learned over the years. As a werewolf she has the ability to regenerate and combine the sheer power of her barbarian rage with the stealth tactics of a rogue. Add that to her pack tactics, intuition for knowing just when, where, and how to strike; and she has made herself a powerful enemy - or a valuable ally.

Mentality

Personal history

Zenrathi's Backstory

Employment

Current: Rogue Assassin pulling strings and having strings pulled by 3 separate factions

Previous: Undercover Agent of Zavnonth/Double Agent of Mother, Bone/woodcarver, Syndicate Assassin, Tribal Warrior

Accomplishments & Achievements

• Worked her way up through the Syndicate's ranks to become one of their top assassins

• One of the first prisoners to ever escape Terralda

• Led her party through the Terralda Wastes and kept them alive thanks to her survival skills

• Rescued Gasa from a dragon's clutches with Vex's help

Failures & Embarrassments

• Sold by her tribe to mercenaries; blames herself for this despite the reality

• Refused to assassinate a dragonborn child, destroyed her career with the Syndicate

• Abandoned Tatharel in a fit of rage to be caught or even killed by guards

• Shifted unintentionally in front of her party and lost control

• Possessed by a ghost and slaughtered a party member

Morality & Philosophy

Growing up in the harsh and evil environment of a werewolf tribe, Zenrathi started out neutral evil and slowly moved towards neutral through her introduction into "civilized" life with the mercenaries and assassins. Her decision not to kill a child solidified her alignment shift as she learned the purpose of law and order, growing to respect it even if she could never fully embrace it herself.
 
While shifted, the barbarian slides to chaotic evil like all werewolves. Though she is a master of controlling her disease and lived with it all her life; just because she doesn't follow her savage instincts doesn't mean she doesn't have them. The possibility of losing control is a constant threat in the back of her mind.

person.sexuality

Homosexual

person.gender_identity

Female

Known Languages

Orcish, Draconic, Elvish, Thieves' Cant

Personality

Motivation

Overall: Leave the past behind and move ever forward in the river of time. What that looks like is subject to change, but in every situation Zenrathi gives her all.
 
Current: She's concerned about the sheer volume of innocents being taken to Terralda, thinking it could be a cover for some sort of cultural genocide. The Clan of Ioun's Light and the Painted Hills are somehow at play and she's determined to protect her tribe and get to the bottom of this mystery.

Quotes & Catchphrases

Haughty morals mean nothing to those with larger teeth.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Her greatest skills lie not in brute strength (though she certainly has that too), but her perceptive and intuitive nature. Ever watching, listening, and even smelling; Zenrathi keeps her senses and her mind open. It fundamentally impacts the way she sees the world both physically, and mentally.

Likes & Dislikes

Zenrathi has a pure love for art. It's her favorite thing about society and in many cases, is what she turns to when she loses faith in civilization at large.
 
She strongly dislikes anything that makes her feel caged, metaphorical or physical. Back her into a corner and her claws will come out as sure as the sun is to rise in the morning.

Virtues & Personality perks

Freethinking, Steadfast, Artistic, Familial

Vices & Personality flaws

Private, Cynical, Steely, Strong-willed, Brutal

Personality Quirks

Greets people by smelling them

Social

Birthplace

The Painted Hills, Xoshela

Current Residence

Unknown

Contacts & Relations

Clan of Ioun's Light: Zenrathi was born to this tribe and still feels very much apart of it even though she was sold during a culling. She has conflicting feelings towards the pack and is unsure both of her place in it and what she wants from it. Regardless, she holds an immense amount of love and loyalty towards them and many of its members that she considers family.
 
The Safeguard Syndicate: Zenrathi worked with them for several years; she loved the close knit group, believed in their charges, and learned how to finesse her natural predatory stealth with them. She excelled at group assassinations and working with her fellow rogues as a team.
 
Tatharel Orthorien: An elvish assassin from the Syndicate and Zenrathi’s past lover. The pair had been inseparable, always training and working together. The relationship was fun at its best and abusive at its worst. Tatharel knew she had Zenrathi's heart and used that to her advantage. A werewolf can't be kept on a leash, however, and it may lead to the elf's ultimate demise. Zen believes Tatharel betrayed her and left the rogue behind to be captured during a botched mission. This still weighs heavy on Zenrathi's mind and impacts every romantic encounter she's had since then.

Family Ties

Zaunar: Zenrathi's brother in spirit and perhaps even her biological sibling too. The trouble-making bard is one of her favorite people on this earth and is her dynamic duo. Zenrathi refuses to forgive herself for abandoning him in Rielera and is determined to find a way to right that wrong.
 
Shaltoga: The cruel, but fair shaman is more of a mother figure to Zenrathi than any of the den parents that raised her. Zenrathi greatly respects the half-orc who has been the greatest influence on her world view. They both know that Zen desperately wishes she could have walked Shaltoga's path to become a shaman instead of a barbarian and struggles with her anger over that failure even after all of this time.
 
Gazros: Zenrathi holds a vast amount of love in her heart for her chieftain and pack leader. She has always been impressed with his seemingly pleasant demeanor, a quiet and well tempered lid on the bestial danger within. Zen still feels the pull to please him even amidst the buried anger over being exiled.

Religious Views

Like most from her clan, Zenrathi is a highly spiritual individual. She believes all things have a spirit given from Iouna and pays little heed to the machinations of the other gods.

Social Aptitude

While quite flirtatious, Zenrathi is not as charming as she thinks she is. She has a quiet confidence about her and a steady swagger to her movements.

Speech

Her draconic is quite fluent and guttural with clear similarities to Orcish. Her tone is typically low and rough, though when she's speaking Elvish she takes on a higher pitch. Zen's elvish would still be brutish by elven standards, but the language takes on a whole new sound in her mouth - melodic, deep and intense.
 
In her werewolf form, Zen's voice gets even lower and more bestial. Her inflections are filled with guttural snarls and growls; it's difficult to talk with a snout.