Ariphes

Ariphes (a.k.a. Ari)

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Ari is a springy, fit woman, using her small status to her dexterous advantage

Body Features

While wearing more casual cloths, some could notice as scar on the right side of her chest.

Identifying Characteristics

Two horns break the silhouette of her head, going backward and coming back forward. She also have a relatively tick tail, which often display her emotions.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Born on the 7th day of the month of Malar, 829th year, she was given to a monastery due to her conditions of her birth. Her early life was mostly dull with nothing really going on. Her days consisted mostly of a mundane tasks list;
She would wake up and do her bed before leaving to the commune halls to eat. Once done, she would start her lessons, which would last around 1-2hrs. Then she would do 2 hours of training before eating her lunch, followed with another 2 hours of training. The rest of the day would be dedicated to chores, which her and her friend would be sent often on errands throughout the city. In these little excursions, they would often fight with the other kids, often being picked on for being outside the loop.
Reaching her late teens, an event shook her life. Her best and only friend vanish during the night leaving only a strange scar from her shoulder to her chest. She searched for a few days, before returning to the monastery to continue her daily life. However, after a year of solitude, she decided to leave and join the military of the Twin's alliance, hoping to not only get out of her boring repetitive life, but make a change to the current geopolitical situation of the kingdom of Carcassonne.
Many years of service passed before she took her leave, as her best friend suddenly showed up, completely different then she remembered.

Gender Identity

She see's herself as a woman.

Sexuality

She's as a interest in man.

Education

Having grown most of her life in a monastery, she learned the basics such as reading, writing, history, math's, religion and daily chores. She also found talent and interest in hunting with the bow which pushed her to find a different way of life.

Employment

After learning about the current civil war, she gave her a candidature into the army under the rule of the Twin's alliance, wanting change the status of Carcassonne. This is were she shot her first musket and fell in love with firearms.
Through practice, she managed to be a good shot. In which landed her a job in the scout battalion. From there, she was tasked with information gathering and her specialty: troop harassment. Using her skills, her scout group would disrupt and ambush marching lines before engagements. She ended up reaching the rank of Corporal.
Her career was mostly successful, but left as realization of her involvement had done very little to change to the status quo.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Though little, she was always proud of reaching the rank of Corporal, as it was one of the only awards she gain of her own abilities.

Failures & Embarrassments

Though maybe not noticeable on the surface, her chest scar embarrass her quite a lot.
Ari (though her goals were a bit unrealistic) consider her role in the civil war a failure.

Mental Trauma

She as a lot of difficulties with horses and cavalry, as they were often sent to deal with her military group. She can manage being in a cart, but riding is out of the question.
She struggle with abandonment issues, with her losing her close friend since birth to mysterious conditions.

Intellectual Characteristics

Intellectually, she's pretty average. However she learns from around her really quickly. She's rather good at reading people, which gave her advantages when shooting people from afar.

Morality & Philosophy

She often goes with her guts, which often turns around the greater good. However, she often regrets her actions feeling she could have done more.
She feels that she need to use her strength to help those in need.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

She always wanted to find a higher calling. From being an aristocrat or a knight defending the innocent, she always felt like she could do a difference in this world.
She also have quite a lot of dreams, such as having her own castle, having a family and teaching her passion of firearms to a new generation.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

She understands quite well the inner working of a firearm. From when to replace the Ethereum crystal to cleaning the rifle, she's better then average.
She's however rather deaf to anything magical, and never really cared about her studies and reading unless she was really bored.

Likes & Dislikes

//Foods//
Likes: She loves a good traditional meal from Carcassone. She also has a sweet tooth. One of her favorite dessert is and freshly baked apple pie.
Dislikes: Celeries, cabbages and asparagus are her bane in term of culinary taste.
//Animals//
Likes: She always love birds, specially the falcon and the crow. But overall she likes most animals.
Dislikes: Due to her life, she really dislikes horses, or riding animals in general.
//Arts//
She loves instrumentals, but his annoyed by bards as they often sound pretentious to her ears.
Paintings have always interested her, but she couldn't draw a circle to saver her life.

Hygiene

She doesn't mind being dirty, but rather be clean. She understood really quick that she had to get use to it since she would pass months in the forests.

Social

Contacts & Relations

She is quite close to her best friend (Hugo's character) which she see's as a brother.
She also knows a few people in the military of the Twin's alliance. One in specific is the quartermaster of her battalion, which helped her get the musket she owns for very little gold.
She also have a few people that she still likes from the monastery, but never went back or wrote to know how they're doing.

Family Ties

She never knew her parents, and wonder where they are. The only person she would consider her family his Hugo's character.

Religious Views

Though she believes the god's are out there, she doesn't pray much. She feels conflicted by the fact that paladins and clerics clearly have powers from them, but the constant mention of them not answering prayers turns her away from being a believer.

Social Aptitude

When it comes to everyday interactions, she quite friendly. But she still likes playing small tricks on people. When it comes to the high society, she somewhat intimidated, often being awkward from trying to be liked.

Mannerisms

Though she as a few mannerism (playing with her hair being a common one), her tail is quite expressive by her own. From straightening while scared to wiggling when happy. If a player pays attention to it they could easily read her on day to day situations.

Hobbies & Pets

She really likes shooting. It can be for hunting but it can also be glass bottles, plates etc...
She's also interested in fashion. From long skirt to more slick shirt, she wishes she could go more in depth in her fashion.

Wealth & Financial state

She's managing, but far from being rich. She tends to do bounty jobs to always have money on her.

Ex-Corporal of the Twin's Alliance, this gunslinger takes bounty while dreaming of a better life.

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Alignment

Chaotic Good

Age

22

Date of Birth

7th day of the month of Malar, 829th year

Birthplace

A small village near Caliburn, Kingdom of Carcassonne.

Current Residence

None

Gender

Female

Height

5'3"

Weight

130-135 lbs

Known Languages

Having grown all of her life in Carcassonne, she fluent in Common and (with a heavy accent) Elvish. She does wish she had the opportunity to learn Infernal, to be closer to her people.