Tor
Justicar Tor (a.k.a. Catori)
Tor, born Catori, is a human descended from the natives of Omphalos. Born in Yesa, she was a teenager when it was destroyed and, left orphaned, she made her way to Riverrun. There, a series of events led to her taking her own life. The god Mirran appeared to her, chastised her, gave her life back, and told her to make use of it balancing the scales. Make her death mean something. She then sought training as a holy knight, eventually becoming a Knight of the Cleansing Flame in Mirran's service.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
She is in peak physical condition and works hard to maintain that. She is strong, dexterous, hearty, and healthy. She is protected from disease by her magic, but bears some scars from fights that she did not use her magic to heal. Her lower legs are littered in scars, as are her knuckles.
Body Features
She has warm, brown skin and dark hair, brown eyes. She is muscular, though outside of her armor, she is short.
Facial Features
She has strong features, a slightly crooked but strong nose and high cheekbones.
Physical quirks
She opens and closes her fists when she's uncomfortable, as if she wants to do something with them to fix whatever is bothering her.
Special abilities
She has divine magic from Mirran. She is able to heal some, can create food and water, can use protection magic to protect places from intrusion or eavesdroppers. She can also force the truth from people, she is protected from disease, requires food once per day, only two hours of sleep, and her armor and body do not require cleaning except in severe circumstances.
Apparel & Accessories
She dresses very practically. She almost exclusively wears her armor, very rarely taking it off. Her armor is aesthetically simple, the only decoration being the two plates at the shoulders with a stylized flame engraved on them. She wears an undyed cloak over her shoulders. Her helmet is nearly always on, often with the faceplate down unless she is having a conversation.
Specialized Equipment
She carries a sword that is very special to her. It is her oathblade, the one she swore her oath on, and she is rarely parted from it.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Yesa
As a child, Catori was part of a large, extended family. Her grandmother would take her hiking in the woods, teaching her about the animals and plants. Her father was a miner and her mother worked with others in the day-to-day subsistence of the village outside of Yesa.Version with her sister, Tiva
She and her sister Tiva would run off to play, avoiding chores. One day, her town was attacked while she and her sister were playing. They returned in time to see their family and village being slaughtered. Urged to run by her dying mother, Catori and Tiva did so, hiding in the woods until the threat had passed. Somehow, a decision that she made resulted in Tiva's death, and she was brought to Riverrun by the person she'd asked for help.Version without her sister
She was in town the day that Yesa was attacked by bandits. She ran to the other part of town, but when she asked, nobody was willing to risk their lives for the people of outer Yesa. They formed a defensive posture on the edge of their own part of town but refused to go beyond it. Catori then ran, choosing to save herself. When she returned, the bandits were gone, her people were dead, and there were men in armor walking around giving orders. One of them took pity on her and brought her to Riverrun.Riverrun
She was brought to the Temple of Mirran until they could decide what to do with her. She snuck out and found herself in a seedy bar, drinking until she couldn't see straight. She blacked out, and when she came to, her fists were broken and bloody and a man laid dead before her, beaten to the point that he was no longer recognizable. She ran. She ran full-on into one of the Mirran acolytes who took her back to the temple and had her clean herself up after being healed. She snuck away again, this time finding herself in a storeroom. After getting drunk on the sacramental wine, she used a broken bottle to kill herself. She laid there, in the dark, in a puddle of her own blood, slowly drifting away, the screams of her people getting softer and softer in her ears until she closed her eyes. She heard a voice and opened her eyes to find an older, bearded man in armor, a faint glowing aura around him. He told her to stop being a coward, to take up Mirran's banner and fight. To balance the scales and earn her death. She passed out again. When she opened her eyes next, she was bloody, but her wounds had healed. She got up, remembering the man's words, and cleaned herself and the storeroom. She went to Father Kennet and demanded to be allowed to fight for Mirran. He oversaw her training, pushing her beyond the limits of human achievement. When she turned 15, she was allowed to complete her final test and swear her oath to Mirran. She became one of the legendary Knights of the Cleansing Flame. She served Mirran for the next fifteen years when her story takes place. At the beginning of the story, she now operates out of the Temple of Mirran on The Kahm, headed by Father Taurin.Gender Identity
Butch, cis woman. She/her. Especially in her job, it is easier to be more masculine presenting, but she will maintain most of that in later parts of her life as well.
Sexuality
Lesbian demiromantic sex-repulsed asexual. She has never felt attraction towards men. She has only been attracted to maybe one other person besides Rukiya, and has no need to be in a romantic relationship, though she can see why people might be attracted to women. She does not want or need sexual interaction and does not need to experience it to know she doesn't want it.
Education
Informal training from her grandmother and the villagers of Yesa. Formal paladin training through the Temple of Mirran to include martial training, religious studies, and Mirran's law.
Employment
Since 15, she has been a Knight of the Cleansing Flame, a Justicar who travels the country seeking wrongs to put right through application of overwhelming, lethal force.
Failures & Embarrassments
She ran away when her family was killed at Yesa.
Mental Trauma
She is afraid of being a coward. Her entire self-worth lies on her position as a Knight of the Cleansing Flame. She believes herself to be worth no more than a sword in the hand of her god and intends to continue fighting until she dies on a field of battle, giving her life to save another's.
Intellectual Characteristics
Determined, confident (in her god and her purpose), dutiful, ambitious, insecure, irritable, misguided, narrow-minded, physically courageous, intellectually cowardly, disciplined, frugal, obedient, firm, focused, forthright, hardworking, religious, solitary, strict, tough, aggressive, neat, stiff, tactless, honorable, anxious, cowardly (outside of armor), orderly, practical, protective, dogmatic, self-critical, serious, fatalistic, steady
Morality & Philosophy
Follows the Laws of Mirran- justice and order. The Laws of Mirran are above those of Man.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
She wants to protect the innocent, kill the guilty, and die doing it because she believes herself to be guilty.
Social
Social Aptitude
Authoritarian, intense, forceful, honest, solemn, stern, stubborn, blunt, arrogant, demanding, stoic
Mannerisms
She tends to behave in a detached way, preventing herself from becoming too embroiled in the personal lives of others.
Wealth & Financial state
She does not require money, nor does she carry more than a gold coin or two when she travels. She can make any place a campsite and can find lodging within cities at temples. Her armor and blade are the most expensive things she owns, and she doesn't consider them to be hers, so much as in service to Mirran.
Alignment
Lawful Neutral
Current Location
Species
Human
Ethnicity
Omphalos Native (human)
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Justicar, Knight of the Cleansing Flame
Year of Birth
2 Y3
30 Years old
Birthplace
Children
Current Residence
Temple of Mirran on The Kahm
Gender
Female
Eyes
brown
Hair
Black, thick. Before becoming a knight and afterwards, long and braided into large buns on either side of her hair. During her knighthood, she keeps it cropped very short.
Height
5'2 out of her armor, 5'10 in it.
Weight
Buff.
Aligned Organization
Knights of the Cleansing Flame
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