https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Ardent+DawnRPC Library - User contributions [en]2026-07-03T13:12:30ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.3https://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=356570Ardent Dawn2021-09-10T01:01:21Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">However, once she feels comfortable, the confident facade begins to fade away and is replaced by a varying degree of emotions that can be said to be goofy, spirited, impulsive, and protective. Her degree of innocence and naivete can be startling to someone who is used to seeing the quiet, calm or the bold bravado that she tends towards when she doesn't feel at ease.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Pursuit of knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the world</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The thrill of the chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> To experience all of life's thrills</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Personal redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adaptable facade</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adept at combat</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fierce loyalty</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Impulsive</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cannot hold her liquor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women and more common among the Highlanders of her father's side. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a dusky cast and her long, dark tresses are often lifted in a braid or pony-tail. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Einar Stormblade (status: ''unknown'') - Hyur Highlander - Ardent only knows him as "that damn sailor". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=302950Ardent Dawn2018-06-16T16:33:21Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Pursuit of knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the world</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The thrill of the chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> To experience all of life's thrills</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Personal redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adaptable facade</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adept at combat</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fierce loyalty</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Impulsive</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cannot hold her liquor</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears aether use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women and more common among the Highlanders of her father's side. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a dusky cast and her long, dark tresses are often lifted in a braid or pony-tail. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Hyur Highlander - Ardent only knows him as "that damn sailor". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=301668Ardent Dawn2018-06-03T04:39:34Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cannot hold her liquor</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women and more common among the Highlanders of her father's side. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a dusky cast and her long, dark tresses are often lifted in a braid or pony-tail. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Hyur Highlander - Ardent only knows him as "that damn sailor". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=301662Ardent Dawn2018-06-03T04:23:30Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Pursuit of knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the world</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The thrill of the chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> To experience all of life's thrills</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adaptable facade</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adept at combat</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fierce loyalty</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Impulsive</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cannot hold her liquor</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears aether use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a dusky cast and her long, dark tresses are often lifted in a braid or pony-tail. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=301659Ardent Dawn2018-06-03T03:55:52Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Adept at combat</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a dusky cast and her long, dark tresses are often lifted in a braid or pony-tail. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=301657Ardent Dawn2018-06-03T03:50:46Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Pursuit of knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the world</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The thrill of the chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a better life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and protecting others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal until the end</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The ends justify the means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears aether use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast and long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=301656Ardent Dawn2018-06-03T03:46:56Z<p>Ardent Dawn: Edited traits.</p>
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:18px;color:#5F5F5F;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Good-bye, Mother'''</div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=301651Ardent Dawn2018-06-03T03:33:26Z<p>Ardent Dawn: Advanced age one year.</p>
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears Aether Use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=217208Ardent Dawn2017-01-02T00:34:56Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">She spans several inches to over a fulm shorter than her Roegadyn kin with her curving, but slender form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Eyriskaet Fyrildaegsyn, a.k.a. "Wandering Shadow, son of Lost Soldier" (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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: <div align=justify><div style="padding: 2px 1px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Template adapted from [[Bancroft Gairn]], with edits by [[Xheja Rajhera]] and myself (mostly spacing). Feel free to use / adapt the template as long as you leave all credits & links back in place, please!</div></div><br />
<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Ardent_-_Main_Resized.jpg&diff=208079File:Ardent - Main Resized.jpg2016-11-19T17:55:51Z<p>Ardent Dawn: Ardent Dawn uploaded a new version of &quot;File:Ardent - Main Resized.jpg&quot;</p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears Aether Use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short among the Roegadyn), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Highlander Hyur - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels. She is currently unaware that out of shame, her mother lied about Caeran's Hyuran heritage -- though not his sailing background. He is approximately 6 fulms with short black hair, pale blue eyes, and a wide, rakish grin that curves at the corners.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears Aether Use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short among the Roegadyn), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Highlander Hyur - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels. She is currently unaware that out of shame, her mother lied about Caeran's Hyuran heritage -- though not his sailing background. He is approximately 6 fulms with short black hair, pale blue eyes, and a wide, rakish grin that curves at the corners.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Do:''' Most RP themes ranging from dark, sordid, and questionable, to the other side of the spectrum with the light-hearted, humorous, and dramatic. Short-term, long-term plots. Romantic, platonic, and interesting.</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Ask:''' Anything that is dramatically character-changing, or may have extremely negative implications for my character. If you're unsure of where I'll go, please ask. Communication is key!</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Don't:''' Permanent character death. Permanently maiming or crippling my character.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=207169Ardent Dawn2016-11-14T00:46:36Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short among the Roegadyn), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Highlander Hyur - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels. She is currently unaware that out of shame, her mother lied about Caeran's Hyuran heritage -- though not his sailing background. He is approximately 6 fulms with short black hair, pale blue eyes, and a wide, rakish grin that curves at the corners.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Ardent_by_Onini_RESIZED.jpg&diff=207168File:Ardent by Onini RESIZED.jpg2016-11-14T00:45:26Z<p>Ardent Dawn: Ardent Dawn by Onini Nini of Balmung</p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears Aether Use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short among the Roegadyn), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:18px;color:#5F5F5F;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Good-bye, Mother'''</div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Highlander Hyur - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels. She is currently unaware that out of shame, her mother lied about Caeran's Hyuran heritage -- though not his sailing background. He is approximately 6 fulms with short black hair, pale blue eyes, and a wide, rakish grin that curves at the corners.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=197039Ardent Dawn2016-09-15T19:59:14Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Highlander Hyur - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels. She is currently unaware that out of shame, her mother lied about Caeran's Hyuran heritage -- though not his sailing background. He is approximately 6 fulms with short black hair, pale blue eyes, and a wide, rakish grin that curves at the corners.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=197034Ardent Dawn2016-09-15T19:57:30Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears Aether Use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short among the Roegadyn), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Highlander bloodline, along with her long, dark tresses. The length of her nose ends in the Roegadyn fashion, flat and broad, while her pale lips are wide and curved. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. However, she does have disdain for most "frilly" wear and avoids elegant gowns or other wear of that ilk. In addition, she wears two long daggers at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, daggers, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she fought in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow is through personal self-education and her knowledge surrounding daggers is currently being furthered through the patience of her mate, who is teaching her.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Caeran Swiftblade (status: ''unknown'') - Highlander Hyur - Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met him: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. Unspoken by her mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels. She is currently unaware that out of shame, her mother lied about Caeran's Hyruan heritage -- though not his sailing background. He is approximately 6 fulms with short black hair, pale blue eyes, and a wide, rakish grin that curves at the corners.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair with grey eyes.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape that."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=193294Ardent Dawn2016-08-30T04:24:32Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=191011Ardent Dawn2016-08-12T22:22:32Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Fears Aether Use</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. She wears a longsword at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Do:''' Most RP themes ranging from dark, sordid, and questionable, to the other side of the spectrum with the light-hearted, humorous, and dramatic. Short-term, long-term plots. Romantic, platonic, and interesting.</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Ask:''' Anything that is dramatically character-changing, or may have extremely negative implications for my character. If you're unsure of where I'll go, please ask. Communication is key!</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Don't:''' Permanent character death. Permanently maiming or crippling my character.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=166901Ardent Dawn2016-03-30T17:46:37Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=134938Ardent Dawn2015-11-10T07:26:20Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">The piercing cry of a gull passing overheard rent the air. Sunlight trickled between soft clouds of cream, which loomed over tall sentinels of stone. Scarlet banners adorned the pillars, which ended abruptly at a large alcove that housed several people and a wide counter of warm wood.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She took a step forward, her short, gawky form shrouded in humble attire. Her black hair was cut short, mere ilms from the scalp and her youthful face was sharp with focus. As she came before a Sea Wolf garbed in military regalia, she cleared her throat. He looked around a slender pair of rimless glasses and grunted.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"May I help you?" he said curtly.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I am Ardent Dawn and I seek to join the Maelstrom," she replied. Her narrow shoulders pulled back and she regarded the officer with a measure of pride in her fierce stare.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">People moved around the deck, though they appeared as faint shadows at the corners of her vision. Blood coated the dark leather that shrouded her in a spreading expanse of scarlet that sought to claim the original color. Her blade rested on the wet wood at her side, stained with the same warmth that flecked the curves of her sharp features. Tears slid down her cheeks as her arms tightened around the small form cradled against her chest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She lifted her head, the wet mat of tangled waves pulling away from the side of the figure in her arms. It revealed the small, pale face of a child. Those translucent lids were parted to show eyes of a bright blue, which had taken on a cloudy veneer as the force that animated them drained away. Their tiny lips opened and closed in one final, wavering gasp.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">With a tear-clouded gaze, she looked around. Bodies littered the ship's deck, their hands often clutching make-shift weapons that ranged from kitchen utensils to mops and brooms. Sailors roamed between them, rummaging for anything of worth. Here and there, she saw her own soldiers fallen among the bodies from where their forces had been overwhelmed by numbers, but not by skill.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"I-is this what I have become?" she whispered in a hoarse voice.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
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| name = Tal Raith<br />
| image = Talninjamael.png<br />
| caption = "How strong is your will to live?"<br />
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| gender = Male<br />
| citizenship = Limsa Lominsa<br />
| race = Roegadyn<br />
| clan = Seawolf<br />
| stat_1 = Age <br />
| stat_1_value = 40-ish<br />
| stat_2 = Marital Status<br />
| stat_2_value = Married to [[Ardent Dawn]]<br />
| stat_3 = Occupation<br />
| stat_3_value = Maelstrom Crisis Officer<br />
| stat_4 = Height/Weight<br />
| stat_4_value = 7'7" 550 Ponze<br />
| stat_5 = Orientation<br />
| stat_5_value = Kinsey 1<br />
| stat_6 = Relatives<br />
| stat_6_value = None known<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 15px; background: #BEC3BC;font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">Basic Info</div>===<br />
<table style="position:center;" width="75%"> Tal Raith is a man marked by shadows. Nothing more than a few years back is certain of him, and even now his work often sends him down routes where prying eyes are far from welcome. Questions about his family or his home are met with jokes or ridiculous tales, sometimes with a hidden edge for those too curious. Despite all this, Tal has managed to earn a fair bit of renown during his time in the light. Prolific adventurer and bare knuckled do-gooder, merciless drill sergeant and noisy tavern regular, the soot-skinned roe has come to play a great many parts in a short time.<br />
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: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Good Booze<br />
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Laughing<br />
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Simple Company<br />
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Staying Sharp<br />
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Healers<br />
: <font style="color:#ECCA67;" size="3">■</font> Animals (Especially chocobos)<br />
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: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> People who are too nosy<br />
: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Preying on the weak<br />
: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Paperwork<br />
: <font style="color:#DFD59E;" size="3">■</font> Sleeping<br />
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: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Vice(s): Tells stories of how he used to be weak for strong drink and soft women, but age has tempered these.<br />
: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Food: Suffers partial anosmia and a similarly diminished sense of taste.<br />
: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Favorite Drink: Numerous, though partial to qiqirn firewater.<br />
: <font style="color:#CACFA5;" size="3">■</font> Dependencies: Magical healing. The intensity of Tal's physical training puts such stress on his system that without regular attention from a magical healer of some sort, he would quickly destroy his own body.<br />
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Tal's personality ranges from gruff and shifty eyed to back slaps and belly laughs, depending on his company, resulting in some vary discrepant opinions of him floating around.<br />
His most jovial moods can generally be found in the company of good liquor and friends. Although Tal himself takes extensive measures to keep himself from actually getting drunk, the mere presence of alcohol seems to raise his spirits. More than a few taverns have seen a haggard figure of a road worn Roe melt into a raucous storm of laughter and decidedly sailorly vocabulary. This attitude is also responsible for more than a few rumors floating around about Tal, since the mixture of taverns and good humor generally mean that any questions about his past are met with an elaborate tall tale. Most who know the man well enough just laugh the stories off, but a few naive recruits have wandered into the world, half drunk and wondering over how a long lost prince could end up as their drill sergeant.<br />
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In the middle spectrum is his attitude when acting in his capacity as a Maelstrom officer. Generally formal and upright when meeting new officers, he tends to quickly pick up on casual attitudes and can be depended on to quickly ease into a more rough and sergeant-like attitude. In contrast to this is his behavior when dealing with fresh recruits. Tal frequently volunteers for training duty, and seems to take a an almost worrying amount of glee in breaking in new troops. More than a few privates have gone to sleep with Tal's voice ringing in their ears and his inscrutable gaze burned into the back of their eyes. Terror though he is to some of the troops, even the most sore among them don't dare to accuse him of abusing his authority. For every back-breaking task he sets to them, the roe takes on two himself, all but taunting his charges every step of the way.<br />
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Gruff as his persona drilling would be soldiers into shape is, it's a far cry from his most grim. For that, one would need to find Tal on the job as an adventurer. While some of the tasks he takes up may call for more levity, the darker and colder among them bring out a stony, inhuman side to the roe. This side of Tal is rarely witnessed by those who know him in other walks, which has led to a sort of duality among rumors about him. So strikingly different is his character when in this mode that those who come across him while on the hunt would likely swear him a completely different person from the officer in Limsa.<br />
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Though less common, a few other faces of his pop up from time to time. Among the Maelstrom's headquarters for instance, Tal has a reputation for ingratiating himself to medics that make their way to the higher ranks. More than a few jokes have been passed around about his "courting" habits while Tal tracked down a newly promoted conjurer, often with a few choice bits of personal information and a favored vintage in hand. Another rarely seen side is the gentle, almost paternal personality he shows to those who are genuinely scared. Typically a fresh faced recruit, preparing for his first real foray onto the fields of death, shaken and numb, can expect an unexpectedly personal anecdote from the grey behemoth; A coarsely phrased story about some past battlefield or some other venue for worldly wisdom meant to inspire them enough to not trip over their own spears. These little breakthroughs are fairly rare, however, and typically denied in more public setting by Tal, giving them an almost mythical status among those serving under him. Finally, Tal displays a surprisingly bright and gentle side when it comes to children and animals.<br />
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Although perceptions of him as a person may vary, his appearance is unmistakable. Tal is a veritable golem. Large, even for a Roegadyn, every inch of his smoke shaded physique seems to have been carved from granite, into layers upon layers of compact muscle. Despite his often rough behavior, Tal is quite fastidious about personal hygiene, taking care to make full use of whatever tools he finds available to keep himself clean and well groomed. In particular, he shaves his head religiously. If he didn't, one could expect a head of thick, black hair, streaked with early traces of grey, just like in his well trimmed beard.<br />
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Beyond his looming build and gleaming cranium, Tal has several notable physical traits in the form of several significant scars. The first that one would likely notice, is the network of varied cuts that surround his eyes. Dense and numerous in bands reaching just out to his eyebrows, these scars vanish abruptly, giving way to largely unmarked skin on the rest of his head. The next most noticeable would be over his right shoulder. A long, starburst gash, centered on a patch of burned skin. Finally, a pale, dendritic pattern runs down the back of his left calf, converging into a frozen lightning burst of raised skin on the back of his left heel. These last two are fairly treasured by Tal, the marks left from battle with primals, and though he rarely has the opportunity to show them off, he revels in every chance he gets to tell their stories.<br />
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: <font style="color:#90AB76;" size="3">■</font> What, sarge? He's a mean bastard, sure, but I'm glad he's on our side. - ''Maelstrom Soldier''<br />
: <font style="color:#90AB76;" size="3">■</font> Tal Raith, he's one of those primal bashers, right? Some kinda warrior of light or something. - ''Limsa Citizen''<br />
: <font style="color:#90AB76;" size="3">■</font> Oh! I know! He's some kinda retired pirate! Or was it a prince... No... -''Tipsy Bar Patron''<br />
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: <font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="3">■</font> Hmm... He's probably the only crisis officer I know of who I'd trust on my team. -''Maelstrom Officer''<br />
: <font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="3">■</font> Supposed to be an adventurer, but he's damn finicky about his work. Turned me down three times now. -''Irate "Businessman"''<br />
: <font style="color:#F37E1D;" size="3">■</font> Augh, not him! I swear he's in here every week, and no matter how much I tell him he needs to take a proper break, he just keeps getting himself torn up! -''Exhausted Conjurer''<br />
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: <font style="color:#D83018;" size="3">■</font> I hear he's not like those other ones that fight the beast gods. No echo, or whatever they call it. Whatever he is, he's no warrior of light, that's for sure. - ''Suspicious Vagrant''<br />
: <font style="color:#D83018;" size="3">■</font> He seems normal enough on the surface, but once you start digging, he's all tangled leads and dead ends. Nobody appears out of nowhere like he did unless they're running from something. -''Information Dealer''<br />
: <font style="color:#D83018;" size="3">■</font> He laughs and jokes and trains harder and louder than anyone, but in those little gaps in-between, you see it. How tired he is... How worn out... What's hurting you... -''Coporal Koshialla Shialla after a night of drinking''<br />
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: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "He is the finest soldier I have had the pleasure of working with." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]<br />
: <font style="color:#aac5b4;" size="3">■</font> "I have met him only briefly but he is defensive of his friends and we need more people like that!" [[Okhi Lyehga]]<br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=134265Ardent Dawn2015-11-07T16:29:09Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Don't:''' Permanent character death. Permanently maiming or crippling my character.</div><br />
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: <div align=justify><div style="padding: 2px 1px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Template adapted from [[Bancroft Gairn]], with edits by [[Xheja Rajhera]] and myself (mostly spacing). Feel free to use / adapt the template as long as you leave all credits & links back in place, please!</div></div><br />
<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:TalArt1.png&diff=134264File:TalArt1.png2015-11-07T16:28:17Z<p>Ardent Dawn: Commission work of Tal Raith done by Felice Melancholie @ http://felicemelancholie.deviantart.com/.</p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:ArdentArt4.png&diff=134262File:ArdentArt4.png2015-11-07T16:26:23Z<p>Ardent Dawn: Commission work of Ardent Dawn done by Felice Melancholie @ http://felicemelancholie.deviantart.com/.</p>
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<div>Commission work of Ardent Dawn done by Felice Melancholie @ http://felicemelancholie.deviantart.com/.</div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=134094Ardent Dawn2015-11-06T05:27:38Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Husband:''' Tal Raith (status: ''alive'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Strong and fierce -- isn't that what the embodiment of Roegadyn are? Tal Raith is every bit what one would expect a tall, heavily muscled, broad-shouldered Roegadyn to be. However, Ardent Dawn found more in the quiet sentinel. From the first time they met, he was one step ahead, protecting her. Always one to shy away from intimacy, it came as a surprise to her to find that she had given her heart away to this giant. He became her redemption and her haven in the world she felt disconnected from.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=134090Ardent Dawn2015-11-06T04:53:35Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=132198Ardent Dawn2015-10-28T15:24:20Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=132197Ardent Dawn2015-10-28T15:23:20Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn's hawk-like features have a more tan cast due to her Hellsguard blood. Those who look at her would notice that her pale grey eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=132196Ardent Dawn2015-10-28T15:20:06Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn bears a striking resemblance to her mother with her tanned flesh and hawk-like features. Those who look at her would notice that her pale eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=130776Ardent Dawn2015-10-22T23:40:14Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn bears a striking resemblance to her mother with her tanned flesh and hawk-like features. Those who look at her would notice that her pale eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BRODA'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=126621Ardent Dawn2015-10-05T09:53:09Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn bears a striking resemblance to her mother with her tanned flesh and hawk-like features. Those who look at her would notice that her pale eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BROTHER'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=126620Ardent Dawn2015-10-05T09:49:02Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn bears a striking resemblance to her mother with her tanned flesh and hawk-like features. Those who look at her would notice that her pale eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. She wears a longsword at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BROTHER'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=126577Ardent Dawn2015-10-05T06:33:07Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font>''')''' - '''BROTHER'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=126576Ardent Dawn2015-10-05T06:31:34Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Creating a Better Life</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Helping and Protecting Others</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> For Redemption</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> A Leader Born</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn bears a striking resemblance to her mother with her tanned flesh and hawk-like features. Those who look at her would notice that her pale eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn wears loose fitting clothing that is usually leather or sturdy cloth to protect her during travel through the wilderness. However, she believes in comfort above all and will wear most things so long as it doesn't hinder her movement. She wears a longsword at her hip and a longbow on her back.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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<div style="padding:0px 10px; font-size:18px;color:#5F5F5F;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Good-bye, Mother'''</div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">EXPLANATION NEEDED</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Svarthrafn Fyrlihtsyn]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BROTHER'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent Dawn regards this giant, hulking mass of Roegadyn to be her brother, even if he is far from it. Svarthrafn is a mute and uses sign language to communicate with those around him. She has gallantly come to his rescue on several occasions, offering to translate what he says to other people (even if he doesn't want her to). Though she understands his gestures clear as day, one should be wary of her translations.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Do:''' Most RP themes ranging from dark, sordid, and questionable, to the other side of the spectrum with the light-hearted, humorous, and dramatic. Short-term, long-term plots. Romantic, platonic, and interesting.</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Ask:''' Anything that is dramatically character-changing, or may have extremely negative implications for my character. If you're unsure of where I'll go, please ask. Communication is key!</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Don't:''' Permanent character death. Permanently maiming or crippling my character.</div><br />
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: <div align=justify><div style="padding: 2px 1px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Template adapted from [[Bancroft Gairn]], with edits by [[Xheja Rajhera]] and myself (mostly spacing). Feel free to use / adapt the template as long as you leave all credits & links back in place, please!</div></div><br />
<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=126575Ardent Dawn2015-10-05T06:24:04Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Unnecessary Conflict</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Disloyalty and Dishonor</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Ardent Dawn? I saw her once when I sailed with the Azure Jewel. She was injured in a training accident. When the medic went to use aether to heal her, she went pale as a ghost and nearly knocked the poor guy unconscious! She spent the rest of the trip in the sick bay. Strange, that one."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
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<br></div>Ardent Dawnhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Ardent_Dawn&diff=126567Ardent Dawn2015-10-05T05:54:04Z<p>Ardent Dawn: </p>
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<div align=center><div style="font-size:15px;letter-spacing:0.75em;color:#9BA0AB;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;">BOLD . PROTECTIVE . FIERCE</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though the phrase "they are very human" may not exist in Eorzea, Ardent Dawn is the very embodiment of it. She has several facets to her character that through different situations, may come to light.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Ardent Dawn is, at first glance, a calm, collected, and warm person. Her lips are ever twisted in a charming smile and her voice is deep and reassuring. In conversation, one might notice that she is dry witted, friendly, and ever full of humor. Though she does enjoy others' company, she may come off as too bold or honest as she does not care to beat around the bush in order to get to the heart of the matter at hand. If she is around people she does not know, one may notice that her smile doesn't reach those cold, grey eyes that are continuously calculating her surroundings.</div></div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Pursuit of Knowledge</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> Exploring the World</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#616978;" size="3">■</font> The Thrill of the Chase</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Calm and Collected</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Cunning and Fierce</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Loyal Until the End</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> The Ends Justify the Means</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> "Don't Make Me Angry."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Stubborn and Unrelenting</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Organized to a Fault</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Doesn't Remember Names Well</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#6f6574;" size="3">■</font> Talks to a Nutkin</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 10px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Her mixed heritage has likely contributed to her shorter (admittedly very short), leaner form, which is unusual among the stout and robust forms of the typical Hellsguard women. Though she inherited her father's black hair, Ardent Dawn bears a striking resemblance to her mother with her tanned flesh and hawk-like features. Those who look at her would notice that her pale eyes are often studying their surroundings, though her lips are always curved into varying degrees of smiles. She appears to be a calm, but personable woman who is used to laughing.</div></div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">Though raised in a household that enforced a strict regiment of aether training, Ardent found herself more at ease with melee weapons. She has had formal training and experience with the following: short sword, long sword, rapier, and bow. Her official training began when she enlisted in the Ul'Dahn coliseum at the age of 14, though she was 17 when she enlisted in the Lominsan Armada and received additional combat instruction. Her guidance with the bow was through personal self-education, though she is currently seeking to advance the skill through traditional means.</div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">A statuesque woman in loose, flowing black robes with dusky skin and a mane of silvery hair stood near the desk. Her hand was held aloft and clenched into a fist. Around it swirled thin tendrils of dark aether that pulsed with power.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"...and that is how you manifest your aether," she was saying, her tone brisk. She looked down at her young pupil, who couldn't have seen more than six seasons. The child was looking out of the window, watching other children run by with small wooden swords in their grasp. Her grey eyes spoke of longing.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent Dawn." The woman snapped out the name as she reached forward and grabbed the child's chin, forcing her face upwards and keeping it in place. The other hand still held the ball of aether, which started to near those suddenly frightened eyes.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"M-mother, I am sorry! I just wanted to..." she began crying. Tears slid down her cheeks.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Ardent, you will pay attention and you will learn." That voice was cold as she pushed the aether forward. There was a sudden scream and after a moment of silence, the woman patiently began to continue the lesson.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She could feel the heat radiating up through the soles of her leather shoes from the golden sands below them. Around her, the cacophony of the arena was deafening. People were shouting and urging for more blood to be shed. She smiled at their thirst and her grip tightened on the blade in her hand. Before her, a tall figure swathed in rags cowered and struggled to move away. However, one of his legs was twisted at an odd angle it merely twitched. Eventually, he just lay there, resigned.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">"Finish it," a loud voice called, magnified above the rest.</div><br><br />
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<div style="font-family:Georgia;">She stepped forward and brought the hilt of the sword down on the man's temple. The blow left him laying motionless on the ground amid the cheers of the arena. That smile widened.</div><br><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> Order of Ravenstar</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Father:''' Thosinspaer Wyznfalksyn (status: ''unknown'') - Sea Wolf Roegadyn - Though known as "Grey Sparrow, Son of White Hawk" in the local tongue, Ardent only knows him as "that damn Sea Wolf". Her mother never hid how she met Thosinspaer: his boat was in port at the Silver Bazaar and he was in Ul'Dah at the Quicksand looking for a fine ale. Looking across the room, he found something fine alright -- a fine Hellsguard woman! He went to her and told her as much and was rewarded with a slap across the face. However, when he wasn't deterred, she reluctantly shared a few drinks with him. According to mother, it might have been more than a few, because nine months later she was visited by a squalling brat that she named Ardent Dawn. Ardent has never met her father and has not had any success in finding him in her travels.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Mother:''' Desert Rose (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - A strict, unforgiving woman, Desert has pushed both of her children to follow in the family footsteps of powerful thaumaturgy and aetherial manipulation. She is a tall, robust woman with dark, reddish brown skin and pale, silvery hair.</div><br><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Brother:''' Silent Rain (status: ''alive'') - Hellsguard Roegadyn - Silent is the favored child of the pair. Whereas Ardent was a mistake, Silent was purposely born to propagate the family line. His father, Shadow Rock, is a Black Mage that married Desert Rose three years after Ardent came along. Silent was born within a year of the union. He is quiet, reserved, and intelligent, but also taciturn and withdrawn. When Ardent had last seen him, he was still training to be a Black Mage like his parents. He bears a striking resemblance to his mother.</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Don't let that kind face fool you. She has more than her fair share of blood on those hands."</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#a0a5ae;" size="2">■</font> "Oh, ''that'' Hellsguard Captain. She may of been on the Maelstrom's payroll, but that wasn't her only source of income. Everyone could see her ship pull in to port with more than it left with."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#707885;" size="2">■</font> "She may be wearing a bow on her back, but there will always be a crimson blade at her side. The woman is a fool if she thinks she can escape her past."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#4d5460;" size="2">■</font> "Eh? She killed a 'elpless tot in a raid on a merchant ship 'oo 'adn't paid their due. Ain't been right since, that 'un."</div><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "She seemed rather down; her past life must affect her significantly. But she offered me a place to stay -- can't say she's bad people." [[SwygynWyzn Thosinsyn]]</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#30343c;" size="2">■</font> "I have only just met her, though she was very delightful in conversation. I might also mention, she was an incredibly accommodating hostess." [[Jacques Durand]]</div><br />
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: <center><div style="font-family:Georgia"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font> Romantic Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> Physical Attraction <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#CD950C;" size="2">$</font> Business <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✝</font> Deceased <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font> Positive <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#C24640;" size="2">✖</font> Negative <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="2">●</font> Neutral <font style="color:#6b6e72;" size="1">–</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">�</font> Unsure</div></center><br />
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: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Tal Raith]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">♥</font><font style="color:#000000;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">There is little in Eorzea that can make her stubborn, proud demeanor waver. That was, until Tal Raith came along. This Roegadyn has a peculiar effect on the usually confident woman, who has a tendency to suddenly fumble, stutter, or blush when he is nearby. She craves his company and cares for him deeply even if she doesn't fully understand why or how. If asked about him, she simply replies "he is my Tal".</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''Fryn the Nutkin'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font><font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="2">♥</font> ''')''' - '''BELOVED COMPANION'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">Ardent has never been close to many people, and has loved or cared about even fewer. Fryn, on the other hand, is her close friend and confidant. She can be seen talking to him and interacting with him openly around others. No one has really been able to discern if she actually understands the little creature or if she is simply crazy.</div><br />
: <div style="font-family:Georgia;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="2">'''[[Charging Mountain]]'''</font> '''('''<font style="color:#6B8E23;" size="2">✔</font>''')''' - '''BIG 'UN'''</div><br />
: <div style="font-size:11px; font-family:Georgia">They met on the beach of Costa Del Sol. Mountain, clad only in a speedo and a pair of reading glasses, was attempting to score some new bathing suits by slaughtering helpless creatures. Ardent saw him in his outfit and promptly pulled his glasses off and crushed them in the sand. He looked better without them, she said. Though she did replace them. Eventually. With better ones. She regards him as a good friend.</div><br />
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<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Medium to Heavy Role-player from the Eastern Standard Timezone (EST)''' - My general play times are between 1400-0500 EST.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;">'''Role-play Romance/Relationships''' - My character is not actively seeking a romantic and/or physical relationship; however, this does not mean she is opposed to them. These must occur naturally in the course of events. Please do not seek my character out strictly for ERP -- you will be politely told to desist or blacklisted.</div></div><br />
<div align=justify><div style="padding: 7px 4px;font-size:13px; color:#585350;font-family:Georgia;"><span style="color:red">'''Clear Separation of OOC/IC'''</span> - My character may have similarities to my own personality out of the game, but she is not me and she has her own personality. To this effect, you should remember that what happens in-character stays in the virtual world and is not a reflection of myself outside of the game. Don't transfer your feelings for my character to my real self.</div></div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Do:''' Most RP themes ranging from dark, sordid, and questionable, to the other side of the spectrum with the light-hearted, humorous, and dramatic. Short-term, long-term plots. Romantic, platonic, and interesting.</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Ask:''' Anything that is dramatically character-changing, or may have extremely negative implications for my character. If you're unsure of where I'll go, please ask. Communication is key!</div><br />
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:: <div style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:13px"><font style="color:#585350;" size="2">¦</font> '''Don't:''' Permanent character death. Permanently maiming or crippling my character.</div><br />
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