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| name = Nero Lazarov<br />
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| caption = "All work and no play means you're probably an indentured servant. Or tempered."<br />
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| gender = Male<br />
| citizenship = Ul'dah<br />
| race = Hyur<br />
| clan = Midlander<br />
| stat_1 = Age<br />
| stat_1_value = 26 (born approx. 1550-1551)<br />
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| stat_2_value = 5'11" (approx. 181 cm)<br />
| stat_3 = Guardian<br />
| stat_3_value = Halone, The Fury<br />
| stat_4 = Namesday<br />
| stat_4_value = 32nd Sun of the 6th Umbral Moon<br />
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== [[File:FCtiny.png|left|55px]] <div style="padding:10px 15px; background:#2C3539; font-size:20px; color:#ffffff">'''Character'''</div> ==<br />
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=== '''♦ Appearance''' ===<br />
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''"My dedication to reliability is almost as strong as my dedication to having good hair."''<br />
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"Flashy" would be the simplest word to describe Nero's style; "vain" would likely be the most accurate. Though no longer a crisp and unblossomed youth, the Midlander has clearly taken steps to ensure that his appearance is noticed. Bright streaks of orange run amok a nest of smoky black hair; elaborate black facial tattoos can occasionally be seen underneath long, neatly trimmed bangs. Gilded earrings embedded with jewels of questionable value twinkle beneath his ears, and a well-maintained goatee crests a slightly pointed chin. Bright ice-coloured eyes gleam with a mischievous brand of intellect, and a perpetual smirk seems plastered on his face at all times in a manner that seems short of screaming "I think I'm a very charming person". A large scar runs from above his right eye and across the bridge of his nose, compounded by a second scar curving on the left side of his jaw. <br />
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Nero is not ignorant to practicality in his clothing, but still takes steps to treat his apparel with elaborate designs or embroidery. Even the most simple of his garments are often adorned with various decorations, and he will indulge in jewelry whenever possible.<br />
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=== '''♦ Behaviour''' ===<br />
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''"I can disagree with you and you'll be wrong, or I can agree with you and we'll both be wrong."''<br />
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If someone were to combine a disdain for authority, a sense of humour comprised entirely of poor wordplay and sarcastic quips, and an incredibly tangible sense of self-centeredness into one person, they would have been responsible for the creation of an reprehensibly annoying individual, and it is quite Nero's pleasure to be that individual. He is prepared for every inquiry and every insult with a flippant remark and a crooked smirk. His inability to deliver a straight answer is not to be mistaken for wit, however; often his "jokes" fall completely flat, or his sarcasm is incredibly dry, to the confusion of whoever he happens to be conversing with. Nero will often go out of his way to deliberately antagonise whoever he is speaking with, finding amusement in their reactions. Many equate his joviality with being simple-minded or lazy, a front that Nero maintains carefully, for he is anything but. Beneath every bad joke is an air of ambition, and his feigned laziness hides a strong conviction and professional conduct. Nero is also a very ruthless businessman; it requires a shrewd mind to run a successful smuggling operation, and an even shrewder one to expand it.<br />
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Nero is extremely unlikely to act out of emotional impulse or in anger. Self-control is considered one of his most important virtues, and the damage inflicted by a sentimental outburst can often be irreparable. Even so, that does not mean Nero is immune to fits of anger or irritability. He is very protective of children and, as befitting his ego, dislikes being ignored or brushed off. <br />
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However, Nero is also very daring, almost to the point of foolishness. In addition, his flippant attitude and loose tongue can make him seem insensitive to others, as he will often crack jokes to cope with negative events or experiences. Nero is also affected by being ignored, though he refuses to show it, and this can drive him to act impulsively or recklessly.<br />
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He is very hesitant to share any personal details about himself. When asked, Nero will often deflect the question with obvious lies or simply evade it altogether.<br />
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Nero will often act flirtatious, though this is mostly in good fun and he is not terribly interested in a true romantic commitment.<br />
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On morality, Nero is fairly lax. He will generally try to do the right thing when possible, but has no qualms about discarding the notions of righteousness or altruism if they become inconvenient. For him, the ends justify the means, and there are few situations in which he will not apply that philosophy.<br />
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=== '''♦ Brief History''' ===<br />
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''"In this city, the ones who know don't care, and the ones who care don't know."''<br />
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There were many orphans on the streets of Ul'dah, and they took many forms; pickpockets, street urchins, and cheap labour alike were in abundance, even during the city's best days. Though his name was different in those early times, Nero was one of those orphans, one of many children who had the misfortune of falling through the cracks of Ul'dah. While the rulers of the desert city-state did their utmost to maintain the image of Ul'dah's luster, beneath the polish hid the rust, mud, and blood that was Nero's childhood. An orphan did not "grow up" in Ul'dah--a child had to already be grown up in many ways just to survive from day to day--as much as they were tempered against the city's unforgiving nature and apathetic citizens. Nero knows not from who he was born, only that it was very early in his life that he was forced onto the streets. First, he stole. When the stealing lead to fights, he fought. When the fighting lead to wounds, he would bite his lip and refuse to cry, a silent protest against the city's cruelty.<br />
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Eventually, such a path lead Nero to a position most children inevitably found themselves in: the bandit gangs. The gangs found the children useful as thieves, informants, lookouts, and when need be, as commodities. Many a time did Nero see a friend sold to some wealthy merchant or nobleman, some of them jubilant, some going quietly with naught but a sideways glance, others sobbing and attempting to claw their way free. Nero himself was never sold, and as he aged, his chances of escaping the life of gangs and banditry seemed impossible. In despair, he felt doomed to be little more than thug and enforcer, with his only destination being a ditch outside the city.<br />
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In the year 1562, Ul'dah exiled the beastmen from its walls, and chaos began to gradually take hold in Eorzea as the Garlean invasion accelerated through the land. It was during this time that Nero decided to escape from Ul'dah, and using funds he had worked for or stolen, he smuggled, lied, and bribed his way across travelling ships and convoys, hoping to make it across the sea to Limsa Lominsa. It was during his exodus that he changed his name; his previous name was that of a child, and while he was but a mere twelve years old, the boy decided that his transition to a man required a change of identity. Thus did he adopt Nero, a Garlean name, both in the hopes that it would be intimidating to those who heard it, and as his secret, if childish, symbol of rebellion.<br />
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Limsa Lominsa seemed almost completely devoid of the despair that gripped the lower quarters of Ul'dah. There were rogues, raiders, mercenaries, and cutthroats, but if nothing else, the pirate city felt...honest. It was a very welcome change of pace for Nero, a change he embraced. Though the youth, now of the tender age of thirteen, tried his hand at an honest living, he seemed drawn to crime as his talents as a thief and his savage fistfighting (a near necessary survival skill in Ul'dah) caught the attention of a raider captain, who employed Nero aboard his ship for reasons the teenager couldn't say. For nearly seven years he sailed with the raiders, plundering merchant ships, raiding ports, and occasionally battling with other pirates, and it was from the captain that Nero adopted a sense of joviality and humour, even as the rest of the crew engaged in vulgarity. A particularly impressive venture was transporting a thaumaturge, who dazzled Nero with his mastery of destructive magic, completely obliterating a ship with massive fire spell during a sea battle. Such powerful magic was wondrous to Nero who, while skilled in fighting, had never learned beyond his fists, the sword, and the axe.<br />
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It was all very exciting.<br />
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Change was inevitable, however, and the longer Nero spent at sea, the more that his home city of Ul'dah occupied his thoughts. His years with the raiders had changed him in more ways than one, but no longer did he feel the crushing helplessness that his childhood had inflicted on him. If someone wronged him, Nero could fight for himself. If he wanted something, he had the power to take it. Such freedoms were unheard of among the poor in Ul'dah, where gil was the only authority. To those born into poverty, with no opportunity to make a better life for themselves, the city was eternally the master of its people. The more the youth--now a young man of nineteen--thought about it, the more it made sense: if he could obtain such freedom, then surely it was within his power to grant that freedom to others.<br />
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It was with a purpose that Nero returned to Ul'dah in 1569 and took up studies at the Arrzaneth Ossuary--the Thaumaturges' Guild. Ul'dah had taught him how to fight with his fists; Limsa Lominsa had taught him how to wield all manner of martial weapons. The raider captain had taught him about self-respect. All of these were Nero's weapons, but what mattered wasn't the weapon itself, but the power that the weapon granted, and the power granted to Nero by just his fists or an axe or a cocksure attitude was woefully inadequate to the power he could obtain through the aether.<br />
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Five years did he spend as a student; five years spent watching his home city, and watching the blood and corruption fester during the war with Garlemald. The more he watched, the harder he studied at his thaumaturgy; the harder he studied, the more he felt compelled to watch. While his masters at the ossuary desired he stay, Nero knew he could not change anything with merely study, for power meant nothing if it wasn't applied. Thus began his career as a mercenary, and a return to his criminal roots when he journeyed again to Limsa Lominsa and took command of a ship of his own with his new skills in thaumaturgy, with the intention of preying on Garlean ships and smuggling goods. As much as his carefree attitude might disguise it, however, within Nero burns the subtle flame of ambition, and he seeks to expand his operation to Ul'dah. Crime is all Nero knows, and it is through crime that he seeks his fortune, and the power to change the fortunes of others.<br />
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Nero spends much of his time travelling between Limsa Lominsa and Ul'dah; operating his ships and trade from the sea, and gathering information and ingratiating himself in the desert. He is often found idling at the Quicksand--for people say many things when they believe none around them are paying attention--or managing his shipments from the docks. In Limsa Lominsa, he is often frequenting the Drowning Wench or the Missing Member.<br />
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=== '''♦ Melee Combat''' ===: Nero is reasonably proficient in most weapons. His years as a raider and mercenary have imparted him martial skill in most weapons. He feels most comfortable fighting with his fists or an axe; should the situation call for it, however, he will adapt with swords, lances, or whatever is near by. Experience has taught him to fight with a sense of utter pragmatism, and to try to end the fight early. Nero will not hesitate to aim for any weak spots such as the eyes and throat) of his enemy, and even with a weapon he will use his environment to his advantage whenever possible. However, it is to be noted that while he possesses good skill in fighting due to his time as a mercenary, his fighting style is rather unrefined and lacks a sense of technique, and thus in terms of fighting he is still less proficient than a professional soldier or other properly trained individual.<br />
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=== '''♦ Ranged Combat and Magic''' ===: Nero was never trained in the bow and is thus unable to wield one well, if at all. On the other hand, however, he was a dedicated pupil in thaumaturgy. Far from a master, he still possesses the ability to use a wand or staff to conjure plumes of fire, shards of ice, and streaks of lightning. Five years of study, even dedicated study, is a scant amount of time in the mastery of thaumaturgy, but it is enough for him to inflict considerable harm with his magic. Often, Nero will only use his magic as a last resort, or when fighting monsters or beasts. Rarely will a situation occur where he will feel comfortable enough to use thaumaturgy on people.<br />
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:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Children<br />
:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Sophisticated women<br />
:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Good humour<br />
:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Novels and fiction<br />
:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Being the center of attention<br />
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:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Technology<br />
:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Cool weather and rain<br />
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:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Being ignored<br />
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:<font style="color:#2C3539" size="3">■</font> Spicy food<br />
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Reinhardt, or "Vahn" as he goes by, is a Doctor and Aetheric Researcher from the north. His calculative nature is shown through in all of his interactions thus far in Eorzea. He is most noteable for the fact that his facial expression never really seems to change. Any hint of expression is a rarity, as he appears to maintain a near scultured version of a Hyur face upon him at all times. Calm, collected, and well spoken, the Doctor goes about seeking knowledge from other scholarly individuals to better understand the Aether, most in partcular, understanding the Tempered and how to liberate them from Primal binds.<br />
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Reinhardt is a very clean gentleman of very little noteable features that sets him apart from other Midland Hyur. Standing at roughly six folms, he is of a rather athletic build for being a scholar, an indicator that he does some forms of exercise to support the field work he finds himself in. His skin is relatively pale, but in very good condition. No blemishes, nor scars are on his person which could oft make it questionable that he is as traveled as he mentions. Fair colored locks of platinum and sun kissed white gold are typically well kept in a shoft cut and slicked back with a slightly fragrant wax that provide a subtle scent of citrus and lavender. A scent that may mostly be picked up by those with a higher sense of smell. His sharp set of eyes are a very light color of hazel but have since been masked with specks of gold that, upon close inspection, can be seen to be moving about on the surface of his eyes. A good sign that he is under aetheric influence or has aetheric talent of some kind. A slight bit of facial hair marks his chin, the collection of the above making for a rather well chiseled Hyur face with little setting it apart from others of his race. With the lack of facial expression it tends to don, it is quite easily forgotten.<br />
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He often has an additiona scent of ether about him, this mostly being from it's consumption which he does routinely. Without any indication as to why.<br />
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Reinhardt appears to maintain a level of calm no matter what the circumstances provide. This level of calm can even be unnerving in many situations where his demeanor may not seem to have any sign of change. If necessary, he will take a moment to analyze and assess situations before engaging them.<br />
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Analysis appears to be what Reinhardt does. Always watching, calculating, and analyzing situations before engaging them to the fullest extent. It is rare to see Reinhardt break this trend even in the most hectic or stressful situations. It's an aspect of him that seems to never yield, and he will take as much time as he needs to separate himself from a situation to get a better advantage.<br />
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Nothing Reinhardt does is without reason. All movements, motions, gazes and displays are with purpose and delibration. There is nothing about what he does that is not calm, calculated, and measured for use. Execution is key, as it determines the outcome of all of the other calculations he may make for a given situation. All movements are conservative, utilizing just the right amount of energy needed. Nothing is wasted, overly flourished, nor overly complicated. It is just as it should be.<br />
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Reinhardt, or "Vahn", does not have any known romantic relations.<br />
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Reinhardt, or "Vahn", have no enemies at present.<br />
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Rufus is actually somewhat taller than the average hyur male. Sporting fairly tanned skin, crystal-blue eyes, and a head of short,straight, dark brown hair that at times, can make him look a little like an angry demon hellbent on consuming the souls of the innocent. His facial features are rather fair, considering his young age. The one exception to this rule would be the scar marring his brow. In addition, he also has an unusually shaped patch of skin on the left side of his head - a birthmark that is usually covered by his hair. Another thing that is unlikely to be seen is a warped patch of skin on the back of his right hand. It would appear that the symbol of Halone was burned into the skin some time ago.<br />
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At first glance, it would be easy to tell that Rufus has done some work to maintain his health. Physically, he displays many masculine traits. A solid jaw, broad shoulders, and a slightly barrel chest. While not muscle-bound to any ridiculous degree, it would show that he has some muscle mass. At least whenever he wears casual clothes, which is often. It is a body that is clearly built for combat.<br />
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===Personality===<br />
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Rufus is generally a very well demeanored person overall, almost always smiling and being as nice of a person as he can be. This seems to draw people to him, which he is thankful for. He does display some rather childish tendencies from time to time, however. If it be through discovering something new, or getting into a pointless argument with a friend. In the latter cases, he tends to fall to sarcasm as his defense. He has a dry sense of humor, which generally works for him. This sometimes is a cause for internal strife, however, as he can inadvertently hurt the feelings of those he tries to joke with. Due to this, he is very quick to apologize, and feels guilty rather easily. He is also very caring and appreciative of his friends. Even going so far as to believe he is not entirely worthy of certain friendships from time-to-time. But in the end, he would do anything for them.<br />
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==Combat==<br />
Having trained for practically his entire life in the way of sword and board, he has become a rather adept fighter, able to take on a myriad of foes, though not without difficulty at times. He does still have a fair deal to learn, including fully mastering the techniques of the paladin art. In general, though, his combat skills are just a bit above middling. <br />
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==Tendencies==<br />
===Likes===<br />
::* Friendship<br />
::* Fishing<br />
::* Helping people<br />
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===Dislikes===<br />
::* Bad news<br />
::* Rain<br />
::* Villains<br />
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===Hobbies/Talents===<br />
::* Sword fighting<br />
::* Fishing<br />
::* Cooking<br />
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==Relationships==<br />
===Family===<br />
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Mother - Selene Miller: Deceased. An ex-Bloodsands fighter from Ul'dah. She died giving birth to Rufus. Or so he believes.<br />
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Father - Drystan Miller: Deceased. Rufus's abusive father, also a Bloodsands fighter from Ul'dah. Died in the battle of Carteneau. <br />
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===Friends===<br />
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Mylene Wharf: Arguably one of Rufus's first friends since the Calamity. He met her at random in the Quicksand, and they got to talking. Though she was initially shy around him, he tried his best to foster a friendship with her. Eventually, she showed him how to fish, creating his love for fishing, and a lasting bond between them. Now, he works alongside her in the Tomial Order he is a part of.<br />
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Raikemi Maira: Another of the first friends after the Calamity. Rufus met Raikemi by chance when he overheard a conversation about a woman looking for her lost brother. He offered to help her, alongside Raikemi. As the two sat around, they seemed to hit it off, becoming fast friends. Nowadays he thinks of her as a reliable friend, and an overall good friend, despite the back and forth teasing between them. He works alongside her in Tomial Order also.<br />
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Miah Lyegha: Rufus encountered this individual as she approached him at random in the Quicksand one morning. The two got to talking, and quickly became friends. He later learned that she was a bard, and often listened to her play, enjoying her abilities and songs both thoroughly. In the time since then, he has learned many things about her, and even helped her out to the best of his ability in a certain crisis.<br />
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Yehn Molkot: A curious run-in for Rufus. Having met Yehn randomly in the Quicksand one night, the two talked for a time, before she gave him some help in achieving a goal of his. From that moment, he knew she was going to be someone of great interest to him. The two continued to spend time together, until they developed feelings for one another, becoming a couple. He is very much in love with her, feeling that she will always be able to put a smile on his face, no matter what else is going on with his life.<br />
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Mizhki Tayuun + Memzie Ashia: Two sisters that Rufus befriended both at different times. He met Mizhki in the Quicksand, as her Free Company leader was offering him a place with them. Rufus politely refused, however he managed to befriend both the leader, and Mizhki as well. Having a couple of run ins with her later led him to discover more about her. And that she is a little unusual. That said, he doesn't mind her quirks all too much, preferring instead to enjoy her exuberant energy and happy demeanor. He later learned of Mizhki's sister Memzie by absolute chance. Running into Memzie, he talked with her for a few minutes before noting the resemblance between the two. He almost instantly took note of the differences between the sisters personality wise, finding the complete juxtaposition amusing.<br />
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Meriel Thorne: The woman he met alongside Raikemi. The woman with the missing brother. The two didn't talk an awful lot, but they did become friends of a sort. Though, it's been quite some time since he has seen her, and it worries him, though he doesn't speak it.<br />
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===Enemies===<br />
Amazingly, Rufus does not seem to have garnered any hate among those he has met. At least, not to his knowledge.<br />
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==History/Timeline==<br />
Rufus, born on the 16th Sun of the 4th Astral Moon, 1552 of the 6th Astral Era, was given life in Ul'dah to a pair of loving parents. Selene Miller and Drystan Miller. All throughout his childhood, Rufus was told his mother died giving birth to him. This, however, was false information. Selene Miller was a renowned Bloodsands fighter, who went by the moniker 'The Iron Wolf of Ul'dah'. She won many fights in her time, but as she and Drystan decided to settle down and start a family, she hung up her gladiatorial belt in favor of being a housewife. This didn't sit too well with some of Ul'dah's more... unfavorable types. The monetarists, to be specific. She had become a gambling icon, and if she couldn't fight, people couldn't bet on her to win those fights. A plot was hatched for the night of Rufus's birth. The plan? To abduct the baby Rufus and blackmail Selene into fighting once more. Under cover of darkness, a band of monetarists found the infant Rufus, and did indeed take him away. Upon learning of this, his parents underwent a crusade to retrieve their son. Selene refused to submit to the demands of the monetarists, saying that she was done with that lifestyle for good. This, again, did not sit too well with the monetarists. If they couldn't control Selene into doing as they pleased, she was useless to them. They had her killed shortly after. They had also planned to kill off Rufus, as he had not benefitted them in any way. But before the deed could be done, Rufus's father managed to rescue him, killing those that had ordered his wife's murder. Though not without sustaining a grievous wound that never healed properly. It was because of this that Drystan was disallowed to continue his career as an arena fighter. Embittered at both the loss of his career, and the loss of his wife, Drystan fell into a depression and turned to alcohol to solve his problems, turning into an abusive drunk.<br />
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Growing up, Rufus never had it 'easy', though, arguably easier than some. His father blamed him for all the bad things that had happened to his life. He never told Rufus the true reason for his mother's death, choosing instead to let him believe it was a simpler cause. Either way, the blame was shifted onto the child. He never truly knew the feeling of a parent's love. His father instead preferring to force him to train so that he might become an arena fighter one day, and allow him to live through his son's actions. Surprisingly, Rufus found he had a knack for swinging a sword, and began to train diligently with the Gladiators' Guild, becoming a very good fighter. This didn't impress his father too much, much to Rufus's dismay. Most of his homelife involved berating and beatings. In fact, one particular night, after having far too much to drink, Drystan attacked his son with a brand, burning the symbol of Halone onto the back of Rufus's right hand, hoping it would make him an aspiring arena fighter. Years later, Rufus actually did take part in a few Bloodsands matches. He quit shortly after one particular battle, in which he narrowly avoided a sword cleaving into his skull, leaving him with the scar he bears today. Having nowhere else to go, Rufus was unable to escape his father, forced to put up with his near-endless torment. It was only thanks to the friendships he fostered in his time at the Gladiators' Guild that he was able to stay sane. One woman in particular, his first love. She was the one thing he was able to focus on, as he desperately tried to reason with his father, not wanting to see him kill himself with alcohol day in, day out. Eventually, this endeavor proved fruitful for him, as he was able to make some very small reparations with his father, becoming estranged friends, more or less. His fondest memory to this day is spending time at a carnival in Ul'dah with him, even despite how it ended. (Refers to the Ul'dah opening cutscene in 1.0). As the Garleans became a major threat, and the city-states banded together, Rufus watched as many of his friends prepared for war. He was still young at the time, and not very skilled. His father even forbade him from going to the battle of Carteneau, which he himself was going to participate in, despite his wound. No matter how much Rufus argued, he was never allowed to go. Years later, he would find himself thankful to his now deceased father, who was slain during Bahamut's onslaught. It didn't just claim his father, sadly. It also claimed practically all of his friends, and most heartbreakingly, the life of his then-lover. She had been disallowed to go to Carteneau as he was, however, one of the raining fireballs from Bahamut's destruction struck the area of the city she lived in, flattening her house on top of her. Having lost almost all the people he ever knew and cared about, Rufus sank into a depression much like his father. However, not wanting to become his father, he pulled himself out of the depression, and swore to himself that he would train to become a paladin one day, so he could try to stop others from being killed, so nobody had to suffer that pain he himself suffered. The training, however, proved too much for him. He was unable to keep up, and was eventually told to leave. This slumped him back into another depression which took much longer to free himself from. Though through sheer force of will, he did indeed pull himself out of it, taking small steps to reintegrate himself into society. (And that's pretty much when I started to RP with the character). THE END.</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=44183Elsa van Mere2014-08-04T20:11:31Z<p>Argent Wren: Occupation Change</p>
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! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
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! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
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! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 25<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Single<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Mechanic<br />
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| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
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| CST / Variable<br />
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| None<br />
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'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
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== General ==<br />
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===Personality===<br />
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Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
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While she still has scars from her time in the Garlean military, most notably due to her mishap during her [[#The Garlean Military|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
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Also due to her time among the thieves and military, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
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===Description===<br />
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Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
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On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her membership in the Garlean century [[#The Garlean Military|the Crimson Wings]]. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
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==History==<br />
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===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
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In 1553, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
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She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
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===The Garlean Military===<br />
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Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” in early 1571 a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. As a prisoner conscripted into the military, she was placed in a century known as the Crimson Wings, an offshoot consisting of prisoners whose names are stripped and replaced with numbers, meant to take on tasks with a high mortality rate. Given her experience as a thief and familiarity with stolen Magitek, Elsa served as an Immunes, specifically trained for infiltration and engineering explosives and weaponry. Elsa rarely speaks of this period and prefers to forget it entirely when possible, but there is an underlying tone that she is not proud of her actions during her time in the legion. Her left shoulder still holds proof of her former status, a crimson wing tattooed across the skin.<br />
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Under pain of death, Elsa resisted deserting until later a few months before the Battle of Carteneau; order to remove an Eorzean installation, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line for infiltration. Normally an excellent shot, that day her "luck" went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother outside the compound. It was the first time Elsa had observed her own responsibility in the death of innocent; ordered to go on, she escaped instead, fleeing to Ala Mhigo.<br />
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Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family.<br />
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===Ala Mhigo and Setting in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
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Obviously a deserter, and without pay or supplies, Elsa returned to her old habits on the streets of Ala Mhigo, where she eventually ran into an an old soldier, serving as a constable in the region; rather than turn her in and hang her, he negotiated with her, having his own misgivings about the course of the Empire's war. He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and offering her an opportunity to atone for some of her past. <br />
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After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, or be hanged as a deserter, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by furthering her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. She spent much of her free time working as a mechanic for many of the pieces the army had left behind. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild.<br />
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==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
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*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
*Enclosed Spaces<br />
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*Accents<br />
*Mechanics (Garlean Weaponry)<br />
*Infiltration<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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==Misc==<br />
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===Theme Songs===<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=44171Elsa van Mere2014-08-04T19:02:39Z<p>Argent Wren: /* The Garlean Military */ Grammar edits</p>
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|-<br />
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! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 25<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Single<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
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'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
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== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she still has scars from her time in the Garlean military, most notably due to her mishap during her [[#The Garlean Military|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves and military, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
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===Description===<br />
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Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
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On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her membership in the Garlean century [[#The Garlean Military|the Crimson Wings]]. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
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==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1553, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
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===The Garlean Military===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” in early 1571 a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. As a prisoner conscripted into the military, she was placed in a century known as the Crimson Wings, an offshoot consisting of prisoners whose names are stripped and replaced with numbers, meant to take on tasks with a high mortality rate. Given her experience as a thief and familiarity with stolen Magitek, Elsa served as an Immunes, specifically trained for infiltration and engineering explosives and weaponry. Elsa rarely speaks of this period and prefers to forget it entirely when possible, but there is an underlying tone that she is not proud of her actions during her time in the legion. Her left shoulder still holds proof of her former status, a crimson wing tattooed across the skin.<br />
<br />
Under pain of death, Elsa resisted deserting until later a few months before the Battle of Carteneau; order to remove an Eorzean installation, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line for infiltration. Normally an excellent shot, that day her "luck" went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother outside the compound. It was the first time Elsa had observed her own responsibility in the death of innocent; ordered to go on, she escaped instead, fleeing to Ala Mhigo.<br />
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Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family.<br />
<br />
===Ala Mhigo and Setting in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
Obviously a deserter, and without pay or supplies, Elsa returned to her old habits on the streets of Ala Mhigo, where she eventually ran into an an old soldier, serving as a constable in the region; rather than turn her in and hang her, he negotiated with her, having his own misgivings about the course of the Empire's war. He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and offering her an opportunity to atone for some of her past. <br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, or be hanged as a deserter, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by furthering her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. She spent much of her free time working as a mechanic for many of the pieces the army had left behind. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild.<br />
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==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
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*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
*Enclosed Spaces<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics (Garlean Weaponry)<br />
*Infiltration<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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|}<br />
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==Rumors==<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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==Misc==<br />
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===Theme Songs===<br />
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<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=44170Elsa van Mere2014-08-04T19:01:13Z<p>Argent Wren: Reworking of Elsa's past</p>
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 25<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Single<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she still has scars from her time in the Garlean military, most notably due to her mishap during her [[#The Garlean Military|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves and military, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her membership in the Garlean century [[#The Garlean Military|the Crimson Wings]]. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1553, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===The Garlean Military===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” in early 1571 a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. As a prisoner conscripted into the military, she was placed in a century known as the Crimson Wing, an offshoot consisting of Garlean-born prisoners whose names are stripped and replaced with numbers, meant to take on tasks with a high mortality rate. Given her experience as a thief and familiarity with stolen Magitek, Elsa served as an Immunes, specifically trained for infiltration and engineering explosives and weaponry. Elsa rarely speaks of this period and prefers to forget it entirely when possible, but there is an underlying tone that she is not proud of her actions during her time in the legion. Her left shoulder still holds proof of her former status, a crimson wing tattooed across the skin.<br />
<br />
Under pain of death, Elsa resisted deserting until later a few months before the Battle of Carteneau; order to remove an Eorzean installation, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line for infiltration. Normally an excellent shot, that day her "luck" went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother outside the compound. It was the first time Elsa had observed her own responsibility in the death of innocent; ordered to go on, she escaped instead, fleeing to Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Ala Mhigo and Setting in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
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Obviously a deserter, and without pay or supplies, Elsa returned to her old habits on the streets of Ala Mhigo, where she eventually ran into an an old soldier, serving as a constable in the region; rather than turn her in and hang her, he negotiated with her, having his own misgivings about the course of the Empire's war. He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and offering her an opportunity to atone for some of her past. <br />
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After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, or be hanged as a deserter, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by furthering her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. She spent much of her free time working as a mechanic for many of the pieces the army had left behind. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild.<br />
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==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
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*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
*Enclosed Spaces<br />
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*Accents<br />
*Mechanics (Garlean Weaponry)<br />
*Infiltration<br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=User:Fiona_Arasgain&diff=44161User:Fiona Arasgain2014-08-04T18:07:56Z<p>Argent Wren: Added redirect, since character page has already been moved</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Fio Arasgain]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Luma_Lee&diff=43945Luma Lee2014-08-03T04:10:23Z<p>Argent Wren: Fixed image field & set image width to 350. Change width to what you like</p>
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<div>{{Infobox-character<br />
| name = Luma Lee<br />
| image = Luma_Lee.jpg<br />
| imagewidth = 350<br />
| caption =<br />
| title = The Adventuresome<br />
| gender = Male <br />
| citizenship = Lominsan<br />
| race = Hyur<br />
| clan = Midlander<br />
| stat_1 = Place of Birth<br />
| stat_1_value = New Gridania<br />
| stat_2 = Guardian<br />
| stat_2_value = Oschon, The Wanderer<br />
| stat_3 = Nameday<br />
| stat_3_value = 12th Sun of the 6th Astral Moon (Age: 21)<br />
| stat_4 = Marital Status<br />
| stat_4_value = Unmarried<br />
| stat_5 = Occupation<br />
| stat_5_value = Postman<br />
}} {{Character-stub}}<br />
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== Basic Info ==<br />
<p style="text-align: center;">"You are your own obstacle in the journey of life." ''—Luma''</p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;[[File:Stars.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br/>Luma is a silent, curious midlander, with the goal to venture and figure out all of Eorzea and it's landmarks. His father's goal of exploring all of Eorzea is very close and important to him once his father lost his life to the calamity. Before, he thought it was stupid and meaningless, but overtime he realized that his father's goal is the only thing connecting himself with his father's being. Luma occasionally stops to calm down his pounding head, he never knew why his head hurts sometimes, but he believes that as he ventures and finds new locations the pain is slightly easier to bare and deal with. His bardic abilties trained by his father are his skills of choice, he has quite the eye for archery and more-so for sightseeing.</p><br />
== Appearance ==<br />
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'''Height:&nbsp;'''6 Fulms, 3 Ilms<br />
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'''Weight:&nbsp;'''175 Ponze<br />
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'''Complexion:&nbsp;'''Simple Complexion, he looks calm and wise, yet you get a strange vibe that not all is what it seems.<br />
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'''Hair: '''Dark Brown<br />
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'''Eyes: '''Light green, a trait passed down by his father. Symbolized to see all and to always be curious.<br />
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'''Particular Traits: '''Two small black tatoos under both of his eyes, representing his passion for seeing the unknown.<br />
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'''Voice: '''Softly deep and calming, like a gentle narrarator.<br />
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'''Clothing Style: '''Comfortable clothing such as loose shirts and pants, long boots most of the time and glasses depending on his vision.<br />
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== Tastes ==<br />
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=== '''''<u><span style="font-size:medium;">Hobbies</span></u>''''' ===<br />
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*Traveling around Eorzea.<br />
*Staring out at the vast unknown.<br />
*Listening to the ambience of the world alone or with anyone who is willing to join him.<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><u>'''''Likes'''''</u></span> ===<br />
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*Jokes and dancing.<br />
*Exploring the world.<br />
*Music.<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Dislikes</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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*Bullying and disrespect.<br />
*Being ignored.<br />
*Any and all violence.<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Favorites</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Color:&nbsp;'''Red, Blue, Green, White and Black.</span></span><br />
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Food:&nbsp;'''Cinnamon Cookies.</span></span><br />
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Drinks:&nbsp;'''Mulled Tea.</span></span><br />
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Scent:''' Vanilla.</span></span><br />
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Place:''' Lighthouses.</span></span><br />
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;">'''Festival:''' Unknown.</span></span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;"><u>'''''<span style="font-size:medium;">Goals</span>'''''</u></span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:small;">To complete his father's goal of seeing all of Eorzea and finding a companion to keep him company on his journey.</span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:small;"><u>'''''<span style="font-size:medium;">Religion</span>'''''</u></span></span></span></span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:small;">He was not affiliated with any religion in all of his life, but he is willing to learn about more over his Eorzean adventure.</span><br />
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== Personality ==<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Quirks</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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Applying pressure to his head due to mental pain.<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Flaws</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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*Always wants things to match.<br />
*Self-Consiousness.<br />
*Shyness.<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Fears</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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*Being betrayed.<br />
*Losing his mind from the mental pain and forgetting his goals.<br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Talents</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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<span style="font-size:smaller;">A quick learner of the bow, and even faster learner for the bardic abilities of song. The ability to travel for long periods of time across Eorzea without fatigue also seem to be a deeming trait for one such as him.</span><br />
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=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Intelligence</u>'''''</span><br/> ===<br />
<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">He knows not much of the world, only that he wants to discover it's secrets and landmarks. The lore behind the world is unknown to him, but he is willing to learn anything that is offered.</span></div><br />
=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Comparisons</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
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Final Fantasy Characters: None<br />
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Other Game Characters: None<br />
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Anime Characters: None<br />
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== Abilities and Skills ==<br />
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=== '''''<u>Personal</u>'''''<br/> ===<br />
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He ventures often, so he has no knowledge about others or even how to interact with people. His only companion is the pain in his head, he seems polite but he is only supressing his migrains. Emotions are confusing for him, but he tries his best to say what he truely wants to.<br />
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=== '''''<u>Weapons</u>''''' ===<br />
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Although he does not like fighting or violence, he took his father's bow as an eirloom. Since his father was a knowledegable adventurer, he had gotten his hands on the Relic Bow, Artemis.<br />
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=== '''''<u>Archery</u>''''' ===<br />
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He is knowledgeable with a bow, and knows many moves with a variety of arrow types, but to no use when he refuses to use them. Along with the bow, he knows bardic songs for Speed, Mana or Vigor.<br />
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== Story ==<br />
<p style="text-align: center;"><u>More info about Luma is constantly being added as he progresses</u></p><br/><br />
=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Childhood (Age 6)</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a child, Luma was always fond of his mother over his father because he never saw him as much due to his goal of adventuring. The person known as his father was merely a man who would never be in the home, and never witness all the things a father should for a child. Luma's mother was the only parent figure he had growing up, and she had a hard time surviving as a lone mother with no way of supporting their family. Luma would always get his meals plentiful even though they could not afford it, and his mother would ignore her own hunger and body just to take care of Luma and keep him happy. Everynight, Luma would have pains in his head and moan in agony as they happened, his mother had no clue what was happening and he would not even remember that they took place when he awoke. Worried, his mother would send letters to his father and try and find where he is, bring him home to care for their child and figure out just what the pain was from. This would go on everynight, until a devastating event destroyed the only life he knew. The sky was dark, and chunks of molten metal crashed against the world. A large red moon stood high in the sky, showering meteors left and right towards Gridania, it was Dalamud. Gridania was falling apart, all the damage done by the lesser moon was destroying all it came across. A fire spread throughout the area, catching fire to everything it touched. Houses burning, bushes turning to ash, explosive tremors from the impacts and screams of the fellow Gridanians as their homes burnt to a crisp and their loved ones trying to escape with their lives, Luma's mother no exception. She picked him up from his bed with what little strength she had, and carefully brought him outside. It was too late however, she managed to save him but had her life taken from her as their home crumbled atop her. Luma had awoken quick enough to see a glimps of what had happened to his mother. He saw her hand reach out to him, him reaching out to her, but burnt wood and ash blocked them and only the sounds of snapping wood could be heard.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Silence was around him, but he could hear the rumbling of the tremors and damages done by the moon. He had no idea what had happened, only that he was confused, scared, worried, afraid, and alone. Emotions rushed into him as he witnessed the only life he had get taken from him by the calamity, the heat burning up his face, the light blinding him and the shaking making him freeze in his tracks. Luma was scarred. His mother lost her life from the fires, and his father...nobody knows where he even is let alone if he is alive. As he thought about his father, a pain rushed into his head. He grasped his forehead and screamed in pain as his fellow Gridanias rushed over to him and pulled him to safety. Luma had the pain of losing his mother and the confusing migrains going off in unison. He knew not what the pain meant, only that he wanted it to stop.</p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Adulthood (Age 20)</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
<p style="text-align: justify;">Over the years, Luma had grown into a fine man. Living in a Gridanian Inn for most of his life, and helping out his people whenever he could. He still would get pains in his head from time to time, and they would seem to be getting worse, but he was trying to get used to it. One afternoon however, he received an anonymous letter from the local Postman of Gridania. It contained many letters, and a package. The package contained a bow, unique and resembled a harp, along with many letters un-opened sent from his mother to his father. Luma was expressionless, he knew exactly who this package was from and what it meant. Without hesitation, Luma had taken the bow and a satchel full of supplies before walking away from the Inn. His adventure begins, a clean slate. Nobody knowing who he is or was from this point on. Leaving everything behind him, the Inn, the friends he had made, and even the grave site of his beloved mother. He knew the package was sent from his father, so he had to figure out if he had died from the calamity or if he is merely living his days somewhere in Eorzea. He has many questions for him, and the thought of his father made his blood boil for the chance to meet him once again after all these years. Luma had to admit however, he realized the moment he set foot into the world that it was a beautiful place. He knew completely why his father had left and ventured out into this world, and Luma wanted to do the same. Luma's goal was to see all of Eorzea, and to also find out what had happened to his father. Knowing nothing about the world and what secrets it had hidden, he set a course for a sea-side city known as 'Limsa Lominsa' that was offered by the Innkeeper before he set off.</p><br />
=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''''<u>Present (Age 21)</u>'''''</span> ===<br />
<p style="text-align: justify;">It's been a year since he left that Inn and recieved that package, he finds himself staring out into the world from the high towers of Limsa Lominsa. Pain aching his head from time to time, and the attempts to make the pain subside. He knew no one from Limsa Lominsa, nor did he know where to head off to next. The only thing he did know, is that he needed a job so that he can continue to stay in the Inn. He had asked the Postman Kupo for a job as a Postman, and got accepted on the spot due to explaining his stamina and admiration for the world. Luma had a life ready to be built, but he had the feeling something was missing.</p><br />
== Chapter 1: The Postman ==<br />
<p style="text-align: center;">[[File:MaelstromCommand.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Luma Lee, the recently hired postman, had been assigned the task to deliver a letter given to the Maelstrom. Since the Maelstrom has their hands busy, the new recruit postman would see to the task of delivering this mysterious letter to the recipient. As he was leaving the area he noticed there was no sender, and the recipient was no other than the woman he had met earlier near the docks. Luma was interested and was already planning on meeting her once again, so he went off to the docks and lay wait in the Fisher's Guild in search for the girl.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:Letter.jpg]]</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">After tirelessly waiting at the docks for the woman, Luma went off to The Drowning Wench to quench his thirst, only to find that the woman was exausted and leaned over the countertop with her head down. He had sat beside her and asked her why she had been face down on the counter, she then sprung up and adjusted herself to welcome him. They chatted about their reasons for being there for a drink; hers from tired errands, and his from waiting for a woman near the docks. As they chatted for a while, Luma handed her the letter that he had the task of giving her, she stuffed the letter in her coat as if not trusting anyone with it and thanked him. She explained that she never really gets letters, and that it was surprising of her getting one. Luma, being the gentleman he was, left [[Haila Wetyios]]&nbsp;to read the letter privately. They agreed to meet once again to discuss their own reasons for being in Limsa like they discussed previously on the docks. After they parted ways, Luma went back to the inn to rest and calm down the headaches he had recieved and hid during their conversation.</p><br />
== Recent Events ==<br />
<p style="text-align: justify;">Luma had spent sometime admiring the ships in Limsa Lominsa, when a woman by the name of [[Haila Wetyios]] spoke to him and questioned his being there. It was raining, and the rain caused the pain in his head to increase drastically, but the time he spent talking to someone about himself made him glad to have met someone, and maybe even a friend.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Luma had recieved a letter by the Maelstrom after being hired as a postman by the postmoogle. The letter had no sender, but a familiar recipient. So he awaited near the docks of the Fisher's Guild in search for the rightful owner for the letter.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After recieving the letter, Luma had given it to it's rightful owner [[Haila Wetyios]]&nbsp;after they shared a drink at The Drowning Wench.</p><br />
== Other Notes ==<br />
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<span style="font-size:small;">If you are interested in RPing with Luma Lee, send him a message or let him know by Final Fantasy means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size:small;">Always available for RPing, or just plain derping around.</span></div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43142Elsa van Mere2014-07-28T00:36:47Z<p>Argent Wren: Age adjustment per timeline</p>
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! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
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! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
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! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 25<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
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! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Single<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1553, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
</div><br />
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{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
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| style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43089Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T06:19:13Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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<br />
{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Photo.jpg|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Single<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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| style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial" |<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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|}<br />
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==Rumors==<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43088Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T06:18:44Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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|-<br />
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Uncertain<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
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<br />
===Description===<br />
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
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<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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| style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial" |<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
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==Rumors==<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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|}<br />
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<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
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<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43078Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T05:16:55Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Photo.jpg|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Non-Discriminatory<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing so they are often not visible.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
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<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
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</table><br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
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TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43075Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T04:58:59Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Photo.jpg|300px]]<br />
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! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
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! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Non-Discriminatory<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
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== General ==<br />
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<br />
===Personality===<br />
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Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
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While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object, usually without telling the owner. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
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Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
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===Description===<br />
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Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
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==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
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</table><br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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==Rumors==<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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==Misc==<br />
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===Theme Songs===<br />
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<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43073Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T04:53:21Z<p>Argent Wren: Added Photo</p>
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Photo.jpg|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Non-Discriminatory<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
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! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Tattoo_Red.jpg|80px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
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<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
</div><br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Elsa_Photo.jpg&diff=43072File:Elsa Photo.jpg2014-07-27T04:50:14Z<p>Argent Wren: Argent Wren uploaded a new version of &quot;File:Elsa Photo.jpg&quot;</p>
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<div></div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Elsa_Photo.jpg&diff=43071File:Elsa Photo.jpg2014-07-27T04:47:49Z<p>Argent Wren: Argent Wren uploaded a new version of &quot;File:Elsa Photo.jpg&quot;</p>
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<div></div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Elsa_Photo.jpg&diff=43070File:Elsa Photo.jpg2014-07-27T04:45:29Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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<div></div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43069Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T04:28:10Z<p>Argent Wren: Design for Theme Song Section</p>
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{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Non-Discriminatory<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Timezone/Hours:<br />
| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
{| class="toccolours" style="width: 0em; border:none; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em; background:transparent" cellspacing="2"<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Tattoo_Red.jpg|80px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br clear=all><br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
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<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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==Rumors==<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
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<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Theme</div><br />
<b>General </b><br><br />
<b>Combat </b><br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Song</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Artist</div><br />
TBD<br><br />
TBD<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43063Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T03:58:44Z<p>Argent Wren: Added Timezone/Hours + Gender + User Link</p>
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|-<br />
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! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Gender:<br />
| Female<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Status:<br />
| Non-Discriminatory<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4248 Argent Wren]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
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| CST / Variable<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
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<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
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While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
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Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
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===Description===<br />
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Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
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On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
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==History==<br />
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===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
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She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
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===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
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Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
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At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
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==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
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<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
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<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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:<br/><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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|}<br />
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==Rumors==<br />
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{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
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===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
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:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
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|}<br />
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==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
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[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43061Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T03:50:29Z<p>Argent Wren: Organization of Affiliations & Rumours</p>
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|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Non-Discriminatory<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
{| class="toccolours" style="width: 0em; border:none; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em; background:transparent" cellspacing="2"<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Tattoo_Red.jpg|80px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br clear=all><br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
==Affiliations==<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> Romantic Interest <font style="color:#000000;" size="3">♥</font> Sexual Desire <font style="color:#FA70BC;" size="3">♥</font> Platonic Love <font style="color:#006600;" size="3">●</font> Good Standing <font style="color:#8f8377;" size="3">●</font> Neutral Standing <font style="color:#A31919;" size="3">●</font> Poor Standing<br />
</div><br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
<br />
| style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt; font-family:Arial" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Friends</div><div style="border:0px solid; padding:8px"> ===<br />
:<span style="color:#006600"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Acquaintances</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8f8377"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Enemies & Rivals</div>===<br />
<br />
:<span style="color:#A31919; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
{| style="width: 100%; position:center"<br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Frequent</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">Occasional</div>===<br />
<br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
:<br/><br />
| style="vertical-align: top;width:50%;padding-right:10px; font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;" |<br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000;">Rare</div>===<br />
<br><br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD"><span style="font-size: medium">● </span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~'''<br />
</span></span><br />
<br><br />
<br />
===<div style="padding:10px 35px; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:#000000">From Player Characters</div>===<br />
<br />
:<span style="color:#8DB6CD; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center">● </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center"><span style="font-size:small">'''~In Progress~''' <br />
</span></span><br />
<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43060Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T03:25:53Z<p>Argent Wren: Tendencies/Quirks Table Added, BG now white</p>
<hr />
<div><div style="padding:20px; color:#000000; border: 20px; background-color: #FFFFFF"><br />
<br />
{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 14px; font-size:14px; color:#000000"><br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
{| class="toccolours" style="width: 0em; border:none; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em; background:transparent" cellspacing="2"<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Tattoo_Red.jpg|80px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br clear=all><br />
<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
<br />
==Tendencies & Quirks==<br />
<br />
<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 170%;"><br />
<table style="width: 100%;" cellspacing="2px solid #8DB6CD"><br />
<tr valign="top"><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Likes</div><br />
*Hats<br />
*Trading<br />
*Jokes<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD; font-weight: bold;">Dislikes</div><br />
*Bows<br />
*Reading<br />
*Pets<br />
</td><br />
<td width="33%"><br />
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; background:#8DB6CD;">Hobbies/Talents</div><br />
*Accents<br />
*Mechanics<br />
*Tracking<br />
</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43056Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T02:47:30Z<p>Argent Wren: Added Image of Elsa's Tattoo</p>
<hr />
<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
{| class="toccolours" style="width: 0em; border:none; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em; background:transparent" cellspacing="2"<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Elsa_Tattoo_Red.jpg|80px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" style="font-size:80%" | ''Elsa's Tattoo''.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br clear=all><br />
<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Elsa_Tattoo_Red.jpg&diff=43055File:Elsa Tattoo Red.jpg2014-07-27T02:42:16Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43054Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T02:38:51Z<p>Argent Wren: Personality & Description</p>
<hr />
<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
Having grown up in the company of a thieving group, mostly composed of males, Elsa has a significant amount of male mannerisms and is no stranger to more crude jokes. Also due to her childhood habits, she attempts to be extremely disarming and personable, most of her dialog teasing, joking, or deflecting in nature, if not just plain ridiculous. Elsa prioritizes freedom above all else, not easily giving it up, but when she does finally connect with another person her loyalty is unwavering.<br />
<br />
While she no longer believes in thievery, due to her mishap during her [[#To Ala Mhigo|last job]], she is still unable to stop interesting things from finding their way into her hands. To make up for it, she “trades” items instead, leaving something else in place of the object. Though many consider this a fine line, Elsa doesn’t think too hard about it.<br />
<br />
Also due to her time among the thieves, Elsa doesn’t always have a grounded sense of identity; she takes great pleasure in changing her appearance regularly, most notably with hats, which she believes are critical not only to an outfit, but to a person’s presence of mind. Furthermore, the one thing she feels she can still steal is accents; she may seemingly switch at random, or spend hours perfecting the difference between fisherman from two nearby villages.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
Due to Elsa’s habit of changing appearance and even accents, it can be difficult to nail down an exact description of her. She tends to keep her hair short, and naturally it is a dark red, though she’s been known to dye it to fit a persona. Her eyes are a light blue, and she carries the same short, lithe body style held by most miqo’te. She tends to keep her tail wrapped around her center, a habit from her days roaming the streets.<br />
<br />
On her left shoulder is a small tattoo of a wing, a deep crimson mark that signals her attachment to her previous thieving company. Small scars, made by daggers or close calls with arrows, can be seen across her body, though she prefers less revealing clothing.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43052Elsa van Mere2014-07-27T02:16:27Z<p>Argent Wren: Elsa's Backstory</p>
<hr />
<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
<br />
Elsa's naturally a bit distrusting and usually a bit blunt, with a focus on doing what she needs to to survive. Because of this, she prizes freedom and loyalty above everything else, but can be awkward around others. She's still naive regarding Eorzea, and not sure how to deal with her new freedom; having grown up in Garlemald, the new interaction with beast tribes and her magic is something she's still wary of.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===The Streets of the Garlean Empire===<br />
<br />
In 1554, Elsa van Meer was born to the union of a Gridanian Miqo’te slave and a young Garlean naval captain. A woman with a child not being particularly desirable as a slave, the young captain threw both Elsa and her mother out into the street. Elsa spent most of her childhood on the streets of the Garlean Empire; she was vaguely aware of her mother’s heritage, but given her surroundings, the fate of nations was not something she spent a significant amount of time considering. By the time she was twelve, Elsa’s mother, working as a courtesan, had contracted a number of illnesses; with her mother on her deathbed, Elsa signed on with one of the local thieving gangs, picking up baggy clothes, a more personable attitude, and male habits to make herself fit in.<br />
<br />
<br />
She had a significant talent for trinkets finding their way into her hands, but as the gangs became more violent, she slowly picked up sword work as well. No matter how bad thing went, Elsa seemed to have a natural “luck”; wind would blow at just the right time or her opponents would mysteriously trip. Even as gang leaders changed, Elsa was kept on as jobs seemed to just go “right” when she was around.<br />
<br />
<br />
===To Ala Mhigo===<br />
<br />
Despite Elsa’s “unnatural luck,” when she was sixteen a job with the thieves went awry and she and her cohorts were captured. Given the choice between execution and conscription, Elsa took the latter. She was shipped to Ala Mhigo, where she took part in some of the initial campaign before the Battle of Carteneau. Well before the battle, however, she deserted at Ala Mhigo, returning to the streets and her old trade.<br />
<br />
<br />
At least until a month later; hired by another thieving group, her part of the job was to make a tricky bow shot through a window, placing a line in for access to a high ranking soldier’s home. Normally an excellent shot, that day her luck went against her and the wind seemed to push the arrow through the breast of a young mother. She was captured again, but this time she was saved by an old soldier; rather than turn her in and hang her, seeing she was still a child, he negotiated for her release and “rehabilitation.” He spent the next few months, until Carteneau, showing Elsa the work of a constable and making her atone for her mistake. <br />
<br />
Still, Elsa has never forgiven herself for the mistake; even now, she is unable to hold a bow without shaking and each month she pays a courier to carry half her earnings to the family in Ala Mhigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
After the Battle, as Garlean citizens returned to the Motherland, Elsa’s savior was called back to Garlemand. Not wanting to return to her life on the streets on the Empire, Elsa stayed behind in Ala Mhigo; though life was little better there, she felt she could at least continue attempting to atone by continuing her mentors work, if only in an unofficial capacity. However, as she continued to live in Ala Mhigo, her “luck” grew more erratic; bursts of wind would come suddenly out of a clear day or torches would suddenly flare up in an empty hallway. Now in Gridania, she began to research the aether; fearing her lack of control, she eventually made the decision to leave Ala Mhigo behind and travel to Limsa Lominsa, in hopes of receiving assistance from the Arcanist’s Guild<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=43014Elsa van Mere2014-07-26T21:20:49Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
<hr />
<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I don't steal. I always leave something behind. Sometimes, I just do it without asking."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
<br />
Elsa's naturally a bit distrusting and usually a bit blunt, with a focus on doing what she needs to to survive. Because of this, she prizes freedom and loyalty above everything else, but can be awkward around others. She's still naive regarding Eorzea, and not sure how to deal with her new freedom; having grown up in Garlemald, the new interaction with beast tribes and her magic is something she's still wary of.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===Summary===<br />
<br />
Elsa van Mere is a Garlean Miqo'te who is the bastard daughter of well-off Garlean father & a prostitute mother. She grew up as a member of some Garlean thieving clans, where she wasn't treated well but she was kept around for her small size and unnatural "luck" (a talent for magic, though since she & most of her group only had familiarity with magitek, she has had no understanding or control of it). Eventually, the thieves were caught and Elsa was given the option of conscription to the army or execution; she chose the former, but deserted upon arrival in Ala Mhigo, where she hid out on the streets until after the fall of Dalamud. She's since learned more about what her "luck" is and snuck upon a ship to Limsa Lominsa, hoping to discover more at the Arcanist's Guild.<br />
<br />
===Before Gridania===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=42804Elsa van Mere2014-07-25T16:05:11Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I'm not a good person or a bad person.''<br /> ''I'm not important enough to be either.'' <br /> ''I'm just here to steal things."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
{{Character-stub}}<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
<br />
Elsa's naturally a bit distrusting and usually a bit blunt, with a focus on doing what she needs to to survive. Because of this, she prizes freedom and loyalty above everything else, but can be awkward around others. She's still naive regarding Eorzea, and not sure how to deal with her new freedom; having grown up in Garlemald, the new interaction with beast tribes and her magic is something she's still wary of.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===Summary===<br />
<br />
Elsa van Mere is a Garlean Miqo'te who is the bastard daughter of well-off Garlean father & a prostitute mother. She grew up as a member of some Garlean thieving clans, where she wasn't treated well but she was kept around for her small size and unnatural "luck" (a talent for magic, though since she & most of her group only had familiarity with magitek, she has had no understanding or control of it). Eventually, the thieves were caught and Elsa was given the option of conscription to the army or execution; she chose the former, but deserted upon arrival in Ala Mhigo, where she hid out on the streets until after the fall of Dalamud. She's since learned more about what her "luck" is and snuck upon a ship to Limsa Lominsa, hoping to discover more at the Arcanist's Guild.<br />
<br />
===Before Gridania===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=42803Elsa van Mere2014-07-25T16:04:08Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I'm not a good person or a bad person.''<br /> ''I'm not important enough to be either.'' <br /> ''I'm just here to steal things."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Blue<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
<br />
Elsa's naturally a bit distrusting and usually a bit blunt, with a focus on doing what she needs to to survive. Because of this, she prizes freedom and loyalty above everything else, but can be awkward around others. She's still naive regarding Eorzea, and not sure how to deal with her new freedom; having grown up in Garlemald, the new interaction with beast tribes and her magic is something she's still wary of.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===Summary===<br />
<br />
Elsa van Mere is a Garlean Miqo'te who is the bastard daughter of well-off Garlean father & a prostitute mother. She grew up as a member of some Garlean thieving clans, where she wasn't treated well but she was kept around for her small size and unnatural "luck" (a talent for magic, though since she & most of her group only had familiarity with magitek, she has had no understanding or control of it). Eventually, the thieves were caught and Elsa was given the option of conscription to the army or execution; she chose the former, but deserted upon arrival in Ala Mhigo, where she hid out on the streets until after the fall of Dalamud. She's since learned more about what her "luck" is and snuck upon a ship to Limsa Lominsa, hoping to discover more at the Arcanist's Guild.<br />
<br />
===Before Gridania===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=File:Elsa_Tattoo.gif&diff=42502File:Elsa Tattoo.gif2014-07-23T21:15:08Z<p>Argent Wren: </p>
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<div></div>Argent Wrenhttps://wiki.ffxiv-roleplayers.com/index.php?title=Elsa_van_Mere&diff=42494Elsa van Mere2014-07-23T19:56:29Z<p>Argent Wren: Created page with "{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2" |- ! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background..."</p>
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<div>{| class="toccolours" style="width: 25em; float: right; margin-left:2em; margin-right:0em; margin-bottom:2em" cellspacing="2"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | [[Image:Garlemald_Flag.jpg|40px]] <font size="4" font="verdana" color="black">'''Elsa van Mere'''</font><br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | [[Image:Placeholder_person.gif|300px]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" align="center" | ''"I'm not a good person or a bad person.''<br /> ''I'm not important enough to be either.'' <br /> ''I'm just here to steal things."''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''IC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Pronunciation:<br />
| Elsa vahn Meer<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col" width="130px" style="text-align:left" | Race:<br />
| [[Miqo'te]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Citizenship:<br />
| [[Garlemald]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Age:<br />
| 23<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Birthdate:<br />
| 5th Sun, 3rd Umbral Moon<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Height:<br />
| 5'2", 157.5 cm<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Hair Color:<br />
| Red<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Eye Color:<br />
| Green<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Romantic Identification/Status:<br />
| Unknown<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Current Residence:<br />
| [[Limsa Lominsa]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Religious Views:<br />
| Ambivalent<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Occupation:<br />
| Thief, Confused Arcanist<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" style="font-size:110%;background:#8DB6CD; border: 2px #BBBBBB solid" | '''OOC Information'''<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Player:<br />
| [[User:Argent Wren|Argent Wren]]<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Server:<br />
| Balmung<br />
|-<br />
! style="text-align:left" | Other Characters:<br />
| None<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
'''Elsa van Meere''' is a [[Garlemald | Garlean]] [[Miqo'te]] who has recently moved to [[Limsa Lominsa]].<br />
<br />
== General ==<br />
<br />
===Description===<br />
<br />
Elsa's naturally a bit distrusting and usually a bit blunt, with a focus on doing what she needs to to survive. Because of this, she prizes freedom and loyalty above everything else, but can be awkward around others. She's still naive regarding Eorzea, and not sure how to deal with her new freedom; having grown up in Garlemald, the new interaction with beast tribes and her magic is something she's still wary of.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
===Summary===<br />
<br />
Elsa van Mere is a Garlean Miqo'te who is the bastard daughter of well-off Garlean father & a prostitute mother. She grew up as a member of some Garlean thieving clans, where she wasn't treated well but she was kept around for her small size and unnatural "luck" (a talent for magic, though since she & most of her group only had familiarity with magitek, she has had no understanding or control of it). Eventually, the thieves were caught and Elsa was given the option of conscription to the army or execution; she chose the former, but deserted upon arrival in Ala Mhigo, where she hid out on the streets until after the fall of Dalamud. She's since learned more about what her "luck" is and snuck upon a ship to Limsa Lominsa, hoping to discover more at the Arcanist's Guild.<br />
<br />
===Before Gridania===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
===Settling in Limsa Lominsa===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Relationships==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Rumors==<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
==Misc==<br />
<br />
===Theme Songs===<br />
<br />
''~In Progress~''<br />
<br />
----<br />
<br />
[[Category:Garlean]] [[Category:Miqo'te]] [[Category:Player Character]]</div>Argent Wren