Shiloh Grimm.

Character Name: Shiloh Grimm

Race: Dwelf

Age: 30

Gender: female 

Character Description:Shiloh stands at three feet four inches, a head of long, curly red hair tied in three braids to keep off the ground, her eyes are green and she has  a bit of a twinkle in her eye, like she knows a joke you do not. Typically she wears a white chemise under a greyish brown vest, a red skirt split in the front, brown boots and in her hair a felt sunflower flower crown. Be cautious though, attempting to grab her hair without looking carefully might get your hand pricked, since you never know when a fight will occur, she also wears spiked straps in all three braids to keep people from yanking on them. 

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Character Occupation: She is looking to join the guard, wants to own her own smithy and wants to become a champion of Uldir

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Character Personality/Traits: She is the mischievous sort and loves to flirt with people, the bigger they are the better. She does have romantic commitment issues and will do her best to avoid them. She is a bit of a hothead who will get into fights to defend her friends but does not fight just to get into fights, she has to have a reason, because if there is no good reason, then you’re just a bully and she hates bullies.

She will drum her fingers on herself, tables, and even others if she knows them well enough to get away with it when she is thinking. And she enjoys crochet and knitting, likes to make special metal wires when she has the materials to knit or crochet with. She can often be seen with her knitting needles or crochet hooks making little things for people she cares about, her favourite things to make are dragons, flowers and clothes, she finds the process of counting and moving her fingers relaxing.  She also will sing under her breath when doing things and she is in the zone, be it swinging a sword or doing dishes, she is very vocal.

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Character Biography:

Shiloh’s story begins with the plague of 81, where her mother and father first meet, her mother, a dwelf hunter of Perities who was in quarantine with a handful of others  and her father, a healer who worshipped Aderoth who was attempting to keep them all safe and alive. As the sickness gets worse they fall in love, vowing to do whatever it takes to stay safe and to be together no matter the cost, she finds out that his mother is also in the city, an elf who ran away when she found out she was pregnant, and had kept in contact with her dwarf lover. He finds out that she was raised by a human couple who could not have children and were hunters of Perities themselves.

Eventually, in year 83, after much trial and error they managed to get married, their parents were able to attend and the elf and the dwarf couple go into hiding in Barkamstead with the human couple, where they opened a store together with a forge, selling the hides, meat, knitted and crocheted blankets and winter gear and forged weapons of excellent quality, the dwarf and elf hiding their heritage as best as they could as to not raise suspicion. The dwelf couple establish their own lives in Barkamstead, the father working to heal other and advocate for the better treatment of those who were less fortunate in life, the mother going picking up her bow and hunting again, in blissful matrimony.

In 86 Shiloh was born, and she lived a relatively normal life for the first 8 years till the year 94, when the snows came. Her family struggled to stay safe and warm, being proud of not needing much help from her family, her mother risked her life to make sure they had food and went out frequently to hunt, but scarce hunting ment dangerous wilderness, the predators, animals and people, were starving and a small one with less strength was easy pickings…. Her remains were found by another hunting party, ravaged by wildlife and only identified by the size and the weapons, all of them marked with the forge’s symbol.

Loss of her mother left her father scrambling, unable to focus on raising Shiloh; he sends her to her grandparents, where they begin to teach her their trade, as well as dwarvish and elvish, she falls in love with smithing seeing how love manages to break someone so thoroughly she is cautious of it, she also begins to learn how to knit and crochet. While learning to forge one day she asked her grandfather if they could make string out of some scrap material, intrigued it took a few tries over the course of weeks and by the end of two months she had herself a light string she could manipulate with her needles and hooks, the first project she made was little hearts she made for her grandparents for teaching her their trades and helping to raise her.

As she grows up, she manages to make friends and in her late teens she meets a human boy who she falls hopelessly in love with and begins dating. It was a cruel prank though, for the boy did it just to break her heart, and she swears off dating and love. She finds out her supposed friends were all in on it and were bullying some other kids to boot, she manages to fight them off and also swears to fight bullies wherever she may find them. As the years grew on, she became restless, seeking out fights more often, coming to blows with those who would harm others.

As the years passed, in her early twenties, her human grandparents passed away from old age. Soon after, her dwarvish grandpa got sick from constantly working the forge and overexposure to dangerous chemicals, eventually passing away. Soon after, with no one else to help her keep up her disguise and Shiloh scrambling to keep them afloat, her grandmother was found out and forced to return home, and the next thing she knew? Her father turned away from healing for the city, leaving her to join the Cult, anger at the city for allowing his beloved to twist his heart to hate….and that was her last straw.

She needed to grow stronger, faster, harder, so she buckled down, donning her grandfather’s apron and gloves, she got to work, smithing herself a sword and she now seeks training and after careful consideration, she seeks to become a champion of Uldir, seeing it as a way to not only honor the grandfather and grandmother who taught her their trades, but as a way to find the strength to show everyone that doubted her that being small does not mean that one cannot be mighty. Her first test of her strength and will came when she was out, going to seek her fate, she was in Falkvard, seeing what there was to see, when she saw something flit from shadow to shadow, and she gave chase, when she stopped to look for the movement again, she saw a cat, shadow within a shadow, and it watched her, trying to lure her closer, the colours of the world dimmed around her, the shadows grew longer, and she felt like she was almost sucked in…but before she could do anything, it dissipated, chased off by a crowd of people approaching.

She decided to stay for awhile, taking the shadow figure as a sign that something was going to happen, and it did! She was not there to see the portraits being fixed, but when the mystics came home with the news of the void and what had happened she could not just stand aside and do nothing, and thus, her first trial came, defend the world from the void invaders. She borrowed armour of dark material and a short sword of the same material and practiced for weeks, and when the time came, she moved out with the rest of the people, going with a group of guards who had space and she did her best, managing to help kill a few void creatures and survived with minor injuries, using her height to her advantage to avoid most attacks and to hit in hard to reach spots. However, she felt like she could have done more and is more determined than ever to prove herself.

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Magic Biography:

Her grandmother on her dads side has strong magical abilities, but had left her trinkets behind when she fled to protect her son from prosecution. Her grandfather on her mothers side also possessed magic, but since her mother had been given up for adoption there is no knowing of who he is or where he even could be. And for quite a few years of her life she did not know if she had magic.

She discovered her abilities one day in her late twenties, she had watched as a tall elf woman had stood over a group of smaller beings, threatening them with her fire magic. Enraged, she had leapt at her and started attempting to fight her off, getting burned a few times until she noticed the magic coming from her brooch.

She snatched the pendant from her body, and with the strength of her fighting spirit, she managed to summon a small flame and caught the hem of her cloak on fire. While the elf was distracted with attempting to put out the immediate danger to her fancy cloak, she pitched the brooch away from them into a small nearby pond. While the lady screamed and tried to fight off a murder of crows who lived near said pond who had taken a shine to the golden object, she led the misfits away to safety and managed to evade capture. Fortunately for her, the Elven woman was not much liked and the effort to get her was half assed at best, and eventually it was ruled as just not worth it to chase her down.

She has yet to discover her ability with earth magic.

(At least three paragraphs about your character’s relationship to magic, and how they may discover their potential.)

Please describe the magic system, including its limitations in your own words:

The magic system of saphriel is mostly freeform with minimal limitations. Each character with magic needs a trinket to cast. Casting is like working a muscle, you have to keep working with it to get better and to do more with what you have. Each level from weak to divine takes time and patience to make it do more. The more you work with an aspect, the better you can use it, for the magic is only limited by your ability to imagine and it can do many things.

The flip side is that you must be careful, for if you are not you might end up harming your character and causing fatigue and pushing past it will be overcasting, something you should only do if it is a last resort.  The pool of magical stamina is shared between each aspect, and you must be careful with dual casting to ensure you don’t overdo. Ignoring your magic and being separated from your trinket for a long time can also lead to decay of your abilities, meaning you’ll be weaker and able to do less, as if your inner muscles were atrophying. How good a character can get at an aspect is entirely dependant on how much they train and work their magic to get better, full mastery of an aspect could take a long time, but the amount of things one can achieve is only limited by your imagination. (And staff oversight.)

 

(Two Paragraphs, please mention how one would cast, the limitations to casting and specific races, and the consequences of overuse)

Please describe how you would use a weak trinket with your characters first/only aspect: Shiloh would use the ability to flicker the flames of a nearby torch to fool the eyes of someone seeking her out by making them think she moved in a different direction from where she was hiding. (Try to be creative, while acknowledging its limitations and utility uses)

-Please note that some aspects are set when a character is born, while others are up to practice. The number of aspects you have is limited by your character’s race, but they may have less than the max should you so choose, but they will not be able to regain that lost aspect naturally-