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− | <div style="padding:10px 20px; font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;letter-spacing:0.1em;"><center><font style="color:#706b68;">'''❝'''</font> <font style="color:#333333">''Aye, first an' foremost, I am a woman o' learning...doesn't mean I aren't a woman with a heart.''</font> <font style="color:#706b68;">'''❞'''</font></center></div></span></h3> | + | <div style="padding:10px 20px; font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia;text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px silver;letter-spacing:0.1em;"> |
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+ | <font style="color:#706b68;">'''❝'''</font> <font style="color:#333333">''Aye, first an' foremost, I am a woman o' learning...doesn't mean I aren't a woman with a heart.''</font> <font style="color:#706b68;">'''❞'''</font> | ||
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: <font style="color:#FF0000;" size="3">♦</font> Overly-Controlling persons | : <font style="color:#FF0000;" size="3">♦</font> Overly-Controlling persons | ||
"Ye gods, I'll do what I damn well want. Don't make the mistake o' gettin' in my way neither." | "Ye gods, I'll do what I damn well want. Don't make the mistake o' gettin' in my way neither." | ||
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: <font style="color:#CA0000;" size="3">■</font> Pure, unadulterated Alpha Female (Although it is not entirely out of question that she can be charmed into being more docile with drinks, gifts, long-term kindness, or people more alpha than she is.) | : <font style="color:#CA0000;" size="3">■</font> Pure, unadulterated Alpha Female (Although it is not entirely out of question that she can be charmed into being more docile with drinks, gifts, long-term kindness, or people more alpha than she is.) | ||
: <font style="color:#CA0000;" size="3">■</font> Painfully blunt -- about as subtle as a Goblin in drag. | : <font style="color:#CA0000;" size="3">■</font> Painfully blunt -- about as subtle as a Goblin in drag. | ||
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Vicious and terrible to behold, Elm became a typhoon of suffering and chaos to any ship she deemed worthy of plunder. The Salamanders might not have had so lofty a reputation, if the former Scholar had ever left more than one soul survivor of every ship she took. Her disgust of weakness became a festering hate, craving power and a lust for finding people with as much (or greater) strength than her own. If not kept properly in check...Crimson was more than pleased to leave entire vessels coated in sanguine death. Thus was she given the name, "The Bloody Shadow". | Vicious and terrible to behold, Elm became a typhoon of suffering and chaos to any ship she deemed worthy of plunder. The Salamanders might not have had so lofty a reputation, if the former Scholar had ever left more than one soul survivor of every ship she took. Her disgust of weakness became a festering hate, craving power and a lust for finding people with as much (or greater) strength than her own. If not kept properly in check...Crimson was more than pleased to leave entire vessels coated in sanguine death. Thus was she given the name, "The Bloody Shadow". | ||
− | :: The Soaring Salamanders were not to last. Upon capture by a Dzemael raid in the Sea of Clouds, their crew was held captive in the deeper parts of the Vault until judgment could be given to them. Considering them terrorist for their numerous offenses (ranging from noise complaints to literal murder and sabotage,) the entire crew was given the option to repent and surrender their services to | + | :: The Soaring Salamanders were not to last. Upon capture by a Dzemael raid in the Sea of Clouds, their crew was held captive in the deeper parts of the Vault until judgment could be given to them. Considering them terrorist for their numerous offenses (ranging from noise complaints to literal murder and sabotage,) the entire crew was given the option to repent and surrender their services to Ishgard, or be sentenced to death. Of the one-hundred and twenty-eight members that made up the crew, all but a slim few denied the terms, including Crimson herself. Fortunately, salvation came in the form of a raid upon the sanctum by a certain Warrior of Light and company, in which Crimson was able to orchestrate her escape. Convinced her former family was long lost, Elm returned to Limsa Lominsa, broken and defeated.</font></div><br> |
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At first, he nearly didn't notice she'd been there, standing on the opposite wall, staring at him after commenting how long he'd been standing there. It was true, the Black Knight had indeed been keeping to a perch near a pillar in the busy tavern for lengthy periods of time...but this was where he felt the most clear-headed. This was his place of solace. And it was in this way that he commented. Elm thought this peculiar, given the chaos of the place, and so the conversation went on. Every day, the Scholar returned to the Quicksand to seek further information, and every day, he was there. Waiting. It was quicker than either the two of them expected that their friendship blossomed. | At first, he nearly didn't notice she'd been there, standing on the opposite wall, staring at him after commenting how long he'd been standing there. It was true, the Black Knight had indeed been keeping to a perch near a pillar in the busy tavern for lengthy periods of time...but this was where he felt the most clear-headed. This was his place of solace. And it was in this way that he commented. Elm thought this peculiar, given the chaos of the place, and so the conversation went on. Every day, the Scholar returned to the Quicksand to seek further information, and every day, he was there. Waiting. It was quicker than either the two of them expected that their friendship blossomed. | ||
− | ::Stehl Helmgarde--the Black Knight--soon found himself elbows deep in companionship from the Roegadyn, and invited her to a dinner at the Bismark. From there, they only learned more of one another, despite one another's deep discomfort; neither the two of them were much for romantics, and both were not wont to divulge much to others who might have asked. Fate, however, defied even these secretly shy souls...on the lower decks of Limsa Lominsa, when the moon had reached the heavens and the stars shined down upon the lands below, Stehl and Crimson shared their emotions through a kiss, lighting a powderkeg of emotion and relief. Such began the first real relationship that she had ever been part of. | + | ::[[Stehl_Helmgarde|Stehl Helmgarde]]--the Black Knight--soon found himself elbows deep in companionship from the Roegadyn, and invited her to a dinner at the Bismark. From there, they only learned more of one another, despite one another's deep discomfort; neither the two of them were much for romantics, and both were not wont to divulge much to others who might have asked. Fate, however, defied even these secretly shy souls...on the lower decks of Limsa Lominsa, when the moon had reached the heavens and the stars shined down upon the lands below, Stehl and Crimson shared their emotions through a kiss, lighting a powderkeg of emotion and relief. Such began the first real relationship that she had ever been part of. |
====<div style="padding:0px 30px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">The Heretic's Heirloom</div>==== | ====<div style="padding:0px 30px; font-size:14px;color:#5F5F5F;">The Heretic's Heirloom</div>==== | ||
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Within the facility, the Scholar met an Ishgardian/Garlean Miqo'te named Zariaa Astrae. Emotionally shaken by the recent loss of her husband and family, Elm felt the need to cheer her up in her own...unique Crimson sort of way. As the two became closer, the Roegadyn insisted on teaching her to properly maintain her (unusually high) content of Umbral-aspected Aether, in the form of the Dark Arts--the path of what many considered "Dark Knight". | Within the facility, the Scholar met an Ishgardian/Garlean Miqo'te named Zariaa Astrae. Emotionally shaken by the recent loss of her husband and family, Elm felt the need to cheer her up in her own...unique Crimson sort of way. As the two became closer, the Roegadyn insisted on teaching her to properly maintain her (unusually high) content of Umbral-aspected Aether, in the form of the Dark Arts--the path of what many considered "Dark Knight". | ||
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+ | However, that training would be cut abruptly by an interfering party; Zariaa's sister, a Garlean sympathizer going by the name "Bellona." The trained skillshot fired several aetherial arrows into Elm and Zariaa both before vanishing into the Coerthas snows without a trace. Crimson, badly wounded, is escorted back to the Cereleum Skys Headquarters. However, her stay would not be long, as Elm continue to feel homesick and wanting for her former Free Company, abandoning the facility shortly after her recovery. | ||
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+ | Returning back to Ul'Dah in a disguise, the Hellsguard searched for her lover, aching to know he was well, and wishing to give him some manner of solace, knowing full well her betrayal had caused him so much suffering. However, he had not yet returned to that familiar pillar, and so she would return every day, seeking out the Black Knight of Ala Mhigo. It was on accident alone that Elm was apprehended by a lalafellan assassin named Ali Gani, who, instead of turning her in for the hefty bounty on her head, escorted her away from the area. The softhearted machinist would listen to her story, and suggested to her that she fake her own death if seeing Stehl was so important to her. Agreeing to aid the diminutive lad should the need ever arise (as well as settle his numerous bar tabs,) they began constructing an elaborate plan to fool Ishgard into believing her dead. | ||
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+ | Ali and Elm infiltrated a league of brigands on the open sea, fighting through their numbers and felling their captain, a Hellsguard Roegadyn named Fighting Dove. After procuring the corpse, however, Gani stated they would need a particular piece of alchemy known to be extremely rare--the fabled phial of fantasia. They would seek the aid of an ally to the assassin, who agreed to concoct the draft for them, should they be able to procure the Chimera Tears that aid as a catalyst for it. Following several leads, Crimson and Ali Gani dove into the deepest pits of Cutter's Cry, killing the beast that dwelt within its shadowy depths and gathering the tears they needed. | ||
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+ | The Fantasia completed, Crimson took up cover as a Xaela named Miko Hizuki until such time that Ali could take the body of Fighting Dove, newly changed to Elm's appearance. It was then that she came across a mutual friend of both her and Stehl, the Quicksand regular Allister Dedrick. He informs the Sharlayan that Stehl is alive and well...and presently dating another of their mutual friends, a Sunkeeper Hunter named J'intana Mulah. Dedrick also claims that she was "his backup plan", and that the Miqo'te had always been his first choice of partner for life, stating that the fact the Ala Mhigan had gone after her was "a real surprise." Allister then states that Stehl has been surrounded by a flock of ever-increasing magnitude as of late...almost entirely made up of women looking to hook up with him. Utterly shattered, Crimson flees, returning to Vylbrand for some hope of comfort. | ||
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+ | With the Fantasia finally wearing off and Crimson's bounty now paid in full, the Scholar found herself wandering, lost and heartbroken. Steeling her fury and her resolve, she confronts Stehl herself, resulting in a spar between the two in which she was the loser. After leaving her to live another day, the Artifice member uses the power of his Echo to glimpse into his past, showing her the pain he'd been through in hopes it might calm her, telling the woman he had "buried" the love he had for her. Instead however, it merely sought to spark out the hatred she had for both the man and what she considered to be her harem--in her eyes, she considered him a traitor to her for all the pain she'd gone through merely to see him again--feeling that he had betrayed her completely, as Hellsguard are highly traditional and often keep with the first person they lay with. Heart and soul completely decimated, she fled Eorzea, seeking solace in the abyss of the Sea of Clouds once again. | ||
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+ | However, no crews would take her, rumors of her former brutality too great for even the most foul of pirates to warrant keeping her around. Feeling abandoned and alone, Crimson wandered alone, feeling as though the woman she had once been had also been laid to rest. No longer considering herself Sharlayan, a Scholar, or a Sky Pirate, Elm went into a spiral of crippling depression for several moons on her own. During such time, she threw herself at various amounts of men, aching to be rid of the constant suffering in her soul, desperate to fill the void Stehl had ripped into her--the number of which include Elpeaux Rondford, Kyrun Yun, Yoshi Ebonclaw, Yomi Kyuga, Aelfred Seigmondson, and nearly included Allister Dedrick himself until his striking likeness to her former lover sank in. Regardless of her efforts though, the Sharlayan was unable to feel the way she once had. | ||
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+ | :And it was in Camp Cloudtop that Crimson regained a small piece of who she was before...and it came in the strangest of ways--a Blacksmith from Limsa Lominsa by the name of Haemrbroda Thorsyn. The man was a persistent one, constantly seeking out the woman's companionship, even on the threat of death and suffering. Regardless of how many times Elm would punish him, the Seawolf continued to return every day, offering her a drink and some pleasant company to hear her woes. Finally, after several weeks of this game continuing, Crimson obliged and allowed him to take her to Rosewood for a short date. | ||
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+ | What ended up instead was an adventure in itself. Elm, though feeling incredibly guilty about her feelings, was beginning to enjoy herself in the company of the older Lominsan. She found him amusing, intelligent, crafty, lecherous, attractive, and incredibly kind, taking a liking to him immediately. After several ales and a night of high passions finally released, the Scholar abandoned Haemrbroda the next morning. Feeling that she could never love again, that her heart had been buried alongside Stehl's love for her, Crimson fled Rosewood on the back of her Zu Shemzai, seeking refuge in the Dravanian Hinterlands...in the ruins of her former life. However...Thorsyn would not be deterred or abandoned again; stealing an airship from Cloudtop, he chased after the woman and talked sense into her, begging her to remain with him. Shouting that he was tired and aching of being abandoned, and listening to Elm's broken heart as she told him her pains, they wept together and decided between the pair of them that they would take things one day at a time....together. | ||
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+ | After an incident (involving indecent exposure and an attempt at public fornication,) in Idyllshire, Crimson and Haemrbroda fled the city, chased after by a crew of extremely disgruntled pirates. Fleeing to Halgr's Crucible in the Sea of Clouds, they decided between themselves that they would become a pair--partners in the skies together as their own little crew. Having left behind his life of smithing and returning to piracy, Thorsyn boasted how incredibly alive he felt, and claimed he would follow the woman to the ends of the earth and back...but insisted on being called 'Captain' regardless. With an abundance of gil between the pair of them, Elm and Haemr began construction on their own private airship...a place where they could live and revel in their life of freedom in the skies together. | ||
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− | :ღ Stehl Helmgarde -- The Black Knight of Ala Mhigo is presently Elm's closest friend, and lover. Somehow, someway, he was able to charm himself through Crimson's harsh exterior and blunt mannerisms, and even get her to show her more romantic side. Shy and goofy when they're together, Crimson has come to be very taken with the Hyur, even going to far as to allow him to offically be her sweetheart. | + | :ღ Haemrbroda Thorsyn -- At ten years her senior, one might have thought the relationship a little odd...but Thorsyn, being a former pirate himself, was quickly able to wriggle his way through the exterior of the formerly heartbroken Sky Pirate. The Blacksmith treats Elm as both a goddess and (more recently) as a 'pet' when they are wont to tumble with one another...which...is often. Crimson utterly adores the man, though she would never admit it to anybody but him, as her personality is not used to affection, and is still bruised by Stehl's abandonment. Finding him to be amusing and entertaining, capable of keeping up with her and keeping her grounded, the Sharlayan owes her newfound life to the blacksmith that had repaired her shattered heart with his dedication and affection. |
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+ | :♡ Stehl Helmgarde -- The Black Knight of Ala Mhigo is presently Elm's closest friend, and lover. Somehow, someway, he was able to charm himself through Crimson's harsh exterior and blunt mannerisms, and even get her to show her more romantic side. Shy and goofy when they're together, Crimson has come to be very taken with the Hyur, even going to far as to allow him to offically be her sweetheart. However...now that he has "buried" his feelings for her, and she has been utterly distraught with her jealousy of his harem, there is little that could be said of the pair... Crimson, though wracked with hate and fury towards the man, still loves him with what parts of her heart he laid to rest. | ||
:♡ Abrenard Rondelet -- Far from the most...smoothly of running relationships, the pasttime of Crimson and Abenard is the art of trading insults back and forth, until inevitably, one of them passes out from the drink. With both of them having such fiery, compassionate spirits, they clash constantly...which, for some reason, only seems to make them more attracted to one another. Neither the two of them are quite willing to admit there's more beneath their sarcastic, witty, blunt natures...quite yet...But it's quite clear, they're fond of each other in more ways than friendly comebacks. | :♡ Abrenard Rondelet -- Far from the most...smoothly of running relationships, the pasttime of Crimson and Abenard is the art of trading insults back and forth, until inevitably, one of them passes out from the drink. With both of them having such fiery, compassionate spirits, they clash constantly...which, for some reason, only seems to make them more attracted to one another. Neither the two of them are quite willing to admit there's more beneath their sarcastic, witty, blunt natures...quite yet...But it's quite clear, they're fond of each other in more ways than friendly comebacks. | ||
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'''Grey Mountain''': Father to Crimson. He'd toiled within the earth since the day he'd learned to hold a pickaxe. Stubborn, hard-working, and boistrous in nature, he was a character all in his own right, lighting up a room with his jolly presence. Along with his wife, he was killed in the Calamity. | '''Grey Mountain''': Father to Crimson. He'd toiled within the earth since the day he'd learned to hold a pickaxe. Stubborn, hard-working, and boistrous in nature, he was a character all in his own right, lighting up a room with his jolly presence. Along with his wife, he was killed in the Calamity. | ||
− | '''Leaping Raptor''': Elm's older brother, a blacksmith in the town of Little Big River before the Calamity hit it. Whereabouts presently unknown. | + | '''Booming Lake''': Elm's older brother, an architect in Ala Mhigo. The first of the twelve children, born to represent Bryegot. Killed in the sacking of Ala Mhigo by Garleans, allowing his mother to flee. |
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+ | '''Golden Raven''': Elm's older sister, a librarian in Little Big River before the Calamity. The third of twelve children, born to represent Thaliak. Presumed dead. | ||
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+ | '''Great Flood''': Elm's older brother, a fisherman in Little Big River before the Calamity. The fourth of twelve children, born to represent Llymlaen. Presumed dead. | ||
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+ | '''Howling Hawk''': Elm's older brother, a weaver in Little Big River, before the Calamity. The fifth of twelve children, born to represent Nymeia. Presumed dead. | ||
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+ | '''Leaping Raptor''': Elm's older brother, a blacksmith in the town of Little Big River before the Calamity hit it. The sixth of twelve children, born to represent Halone. Whereabouts presently unknown. | ||
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+ | '''Shadowed Oak''': Elm's older brother, a hunter who prided himself on his skills. Seventh of twelve children, born to represent Rhalgr. Whereabouts presently unknown. | ||
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+ | '''Silver Moon''': Elm's older sister, who left Little Big River to become a thespian in Ul'Dah. Eighth of twelve, born to represent Azeyma. Killed in the Calamity. | ||
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+ | '''Burning Path''': Elm's older brother, a guard killed in an Ixal raid. Ninth of twelve, born to represent Nald'thal. | ||
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+ | '''Emerald Song''': Elm's older sister, a botanist and alchemist in Little Big River, before the Calamity. Tenth of twelve children, born to represent Nophica. Presumed dead. | ||
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+ | '''Joyful Breeze''': Crimson's younger sister, a bright and cheery miner in Little Big River alongside her mother and father. The last of the children between them, born to represent Althyk. Killed in the Calamity. | ||
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<div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;">The following items are things that this individual carries on their person at all times. These are noted for pickpockets, and those watching her closely. This information is meant to be a prompt for insight and is not to be meta-gamed, though feel free to use this information if it comes up logically in RP (pickpocketing, a search, etc) with use of a simple /tell.</div></div> | <div align=justify><div style="padding:5px 15px;font-family:Georgia;">The following items are things that this individual carries on their person at all times. These are noted for pickpockets, and those watching her closely. This information is meant to be a prompt for insight and is not to be meta-gamed, though feel free to use this information if it comes up logically in RP (pickpocketing, a search, etc) with use of a simple /tell.</div></div> | ||
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❝ Aye, first an' foremost, I am a woman o' learning...doesn't mean I aren't a woman with a heart. ❞ |
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General Information . Appearance
Personality
Her exterior is not too unlike a frozen flame: cold at a distance, and passionately burning closer up. The newest member of the Artifice of Reason is quick to cover her emotions, goals, and weaknessses...but give her a means to spark her instant anger, and she becomes a boiling pot of cursing rage. Strangely enough, her actions and ways of speaking cover for an incredibly intelligent woman--she is a Scholar of Nymian Lores, a study of Aetheric Formulae, and a student of Sharlayan knowledge--well-read and with a strikingly good eye for tactics and critical exploitation. Easily infuriated by the stupidly brash, morally unjust, and careless, many people see Crimson as a hard-ass, incapable of showing emotion beyond scowling and being generally cross. However, she is actually rather sensual, warm, and friendly behind her layers and layers of thick skin. She puts people at their limits to test their abilities, in an attempt to improve themselves. She cares for the safety and well-being of people she meets, but would rather see them fight for their survival, rather than running and hiding. Although she appears to be reluctant to do so, if asked for advice in the matters of combat, the Sky Pirate is always pleased to test their mettle, reforge it, and improve it. Arrogant to a fault, prideful of her knowledge, heritage, and courage, she finds it difficult to admit when she's wrong, if she ever does at all. To her, weakness is something she'd rather hide. Despite the crap-free attitude, cold exterior, and less-than-polite means of communication, the Scholar is good at heart. Although her methods are definitely unorthodox, she means well in what she does, and does legitimately feel for people when they're in some form of trouble. She has a soft spot for kids, though she'd never admit it, and takes silent joy in teaching them...even if she does have to ram information into their skulls from time to time. Crimson would do just about anything to defend the unprotected, unwary, and innocent, to include putting her own life on the line. Fearless to death as her father was fearless to the loss of his hand, the Hellsguard takes life by the horns, and refuses to let go. A fighter until the very end, it could very well come to pass that she does go down swinging... In spite of her demeanor and mannerisms, Crimson Elm is highly intelligent; at a young age she demonstrated an uncanny knack for the arcane arts and was sent from her village to the north to Limsa Lominsa, where she took up tutelage from the finest the Arcanist's Guild had to offer her. She has great experience in the ways of Aether and Magic, with knowledge in survival skills attained only through vigorous amounts of personal experience. While her physical power is lacking from practice, her ability to tap into Aether has become a point of high praise from her allies, and a dangerous mechanic to her foes.
The Scholar finds ignorance to be the greatest enemy of being liberated, over everything else. Thus, she has sought to teach herself, and strives to teach others, even if it means beating them upside the head to get them to understand what they need to learn. Keeping people uninformed and unintelligent will only regress society, giving way to the rot of collapsing nations, and casting away what could be wonderful potential into the abyss of history, in her opinion. The only true way to set yourself free...is to learn about the world around you, and take advantage of it in every way you can. Elm also has a vicious taste for dishing out her own brand of justice. She feels strongly about giving people choice to make their lives as blissful as they can, without being pushed down by higher authorities or circumstances. Because of this, she often starts or gets herself into a number of bad situations. Despite how much trouble she'll get into, however, Elm is always willing to do so time and time again.Preferences
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Limit Break
Combat Character Sheet
This handy sheet shows all of Crimson Elm's stats and abilities. OOC Note
• Elm's power lies in her defensive capabilities -- She is incredibly skilled with preventive damage, and with the support of her two fae friends, can easily turn the tide in her favor. • She is armed with {LIBRA} allowing her to easily detect weaknesses and critical points of her enemies.
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