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− | [[File:Xheja.png|thumb|center]]<br/><span style="color:#f0f8ff;">''<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">"You would ask of the nature of my being? Why I yet linger even after death? Even I do not know, I am loathe to admit. <br/>All that I know is that I am now aetherbound here, to this plane of existence, and until I</span></span> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">have found the answer<br/>to that question - Why do I still live? - I fear I shall not ever be allowed even a modicum of peace."</span></span>''</span> | + | [[File:Xheja.png|thumb|center|Xheja.png]]<br/><span style="color:#f0f8ff;">''<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">"You would ask of the nature of my being? Why I yet linger even after death? Even I do not know, I am loathe to admit. <br/>All that I know is that I am now aetherbound here, to this plane of existence, and until I</span></span> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">have found the answer<br/>to that question - Why do I still live? - I fear I shall not ever be allowed even a modicum of peace."</span></span>''</span> |
<span style="color:#92a9b7;"><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><font face="georgia, serif">X</font></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">HEJA</span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">AJHERA IN HER PENDING BOOK, '<span style="font-size:larger;">A</span>ETHERBOUND'.</span></span></span><br/><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">______</span></span></u><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">______</span></span></u><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">______</span></span></u><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">_____</span></span></u> | <span style="color:#92a9b7;"><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><font face="georgia, serif">X</font></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">HEJA</span> <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">AJHERA IN HER PENDING BOOK, '<span style="font-size:larger;">A</span>ETHERBOUND'.</span></span></span><br/><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">______</span></span></u><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">______</span></span></u><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">______</span></span></u><u style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41);"><span style="font-size: 50px; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">_____</span></span></u> | ||
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color:#899398;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Xhej's chief occupation is that of an Alchemist. She began her training shortly after coming to Ul'dah, when she discovered that she could absorb aether from crystals that she had been transporting for the guild. Setting her mind to studying the art of alchemy, she was able to achieve a rather impressive level of skill in a relatively short amount of time. Most notably, she is the designer and creator of a number of exotic and high-quality dyes and cosmetics that she calls Rajhera's Radiants. Becoming more and more known amongst Ul'dah's wealthy and fashionable elite, she sees enough demand for them to pull in a healthy bit of coin.<br/><br/>In addition to her paying occupation of alchemist, she also fancies herself both a thaumaturge and a researcher of aetheric studies in her spare time. While she funds most of her own research through her alchemical sales, she does occasionally receive funding from the Arrzaneth Ossuary or independent commissioners for more specific research purposes. Sometimes, when funds are particularly scarce and research contracts are nowhere to be found, she will sign on to adventuring parties headed out to places of interest or the like. Given her talent with thaumaturgy, she is more than capable of holding her own out in the field as long as she has a sword-and-shield type to stand between her and the sharp and pointy bits of the beasts.<br/><br/>She has also more recently decided that she would pick up the quill and begin to document her musing and her experiences into a collection of journal-like entries, which she has entitled 'Aetherbound'. However, she is still unsure as to whether or not she'll even finish it, much less publish it and make her condition publically known. Though deep down, she hopes that when - or ''if'' - she ever manages to untether herself and pass on, she would be able to leave the book behind as a means to leave her mark on the world and perhaps caution against others seeking to conduct the same kind of magic that bound her in the first place.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); font-family: georgia, serif;">---</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aetheric Condition</span></span></span>'''</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color:#899398;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Xheja's condition is rather unique. At the least, she has never encountered nor even heard of someone whose condition mirrors that of her own. To put it simply, when she was killed upon the fields of Carteneau, her aether - her soul - was recalled and bound to her physical body. Yet it was a very different spell that brought her back, not just simple necromancy. For one, she is ''not'' undead. For all intents and purposes, she is a living being with the same need for food and water and the like as any other person. However, ''unlike'' most living people, Xheja's soul and her corporeal body are not as one. While it is her own form she is bound to, it is more like she is an apparition that has simply possessed her own body. There is an unbreakable link between aether and matter, but it is not a ''solid'' one. As such, there are a few peculiar side effects.</span></span><br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); font-family: georgia, serif;">---</span></p><ul style="margin-left: 80px;"> | <p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color:#899398;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Xhej's chief occupation is that of an Alchemist. She began her training shortly after coming to Ul'dah, when she discovered that she could absorb aether from crystals that she had been transporting for the guild. Setting her mind to studying the art of alchemy, she was able to achieve a rather impressive level of skill in a relatively short amount of time. Most notably, she is the designer and creator of a number of exotic and high-quality dyes and cosmetics that she calls Rajhera's Radiants. Becoming more and more known amongst Ul'dah's wealthy and fashionable elite, she sees enough demand for them to pull in a healthy bit of coin.<br/><br/>In addition to her paying occupation of alchemist, she also fancies herself both a thaumaturge and a researcher of aetheric studies in her spare time. While she funds most of her own research through her alchemical sales, she does occasionally receive funding from the Arrzaneth Ossuary or independent commissioners for more specific research purposes. Sometimes, when funds are particularly scarce and research contracts are nowhere to be found, she will sign on to adventuring parties headed out to places of interest or the like. Given her talent with thaumaturgy, she is more than capable of holding her own out in the field as long as she has a sword-and-shield type to stand between her and the sharp and pointy bits of the beasts.<br/><br/>She has also more recently decided that she would pick up the quill and begin to document her musing and her experiences into a collection of journal-like entries, which she has entitled 'Aetherbound'. However, she is still unsure as to whether or not she'll even finish it, much less publish it and make her condition publically known. Though deep down, she hopes that when - or ''if'' - she ever manages to untether herself and pass on, she would be able to leave the book behind as a means to leave her mark on the world and perhaps caution against others seeking to conduct the same kind of magic that bound her in the first place.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); font-family: georgia, serif;">---</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Aetheric Condition</span></span></span>'''</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color:#899398;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Xheja's condition is rather unique. At the least, she has never encountered nor even heard of someone whose condition mirrors that of her own. To put it simply, when she was killed upon the fields of Carteneau, her aether - her soul - was recalled and bound to her physical body. Yet it was a very different spell that brought her back, not just simple necromancy. For one, she is ''not'' undead. For all intents and purposes, she is a living being with the same need for food and water and the like as any other person. However, ''unlike'' most living people, Xheja's soul and her corporeal body are not as one. While it is her own form she is bound to, it is more like she is an apparition that has simply possessed her own body. There is an unbreakable link between aether and matter, but it is not a ''solid'' one. As such, there are a few peculiar side effects.</span></span><br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); font-family: georgia, serif;">---</span></p><ul style="margin-left: 80px;"> | ||
<li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Constancy :'''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">''' '''For one, Xheja's body is essentially unchanging. She does not age, her appearance does not change in any way, she does not scar, and - most curiously of all - she does not die in the same sense as a regular mortal person dies. In the case that she is 'killed', the link between her aetheric and corporeal forms weakens drastically. However, due to the nature of the spell that was cast upon her, that link is unable to be severed. After some time, when the aether has had enough time to mend her wounds, the link strengths and she 'returns' to life.<br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify;">---</span></span></li> | <li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Constancy :'''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">''' '''For one, Xheja's body is essentially unchanging. She does not age, her appearance does not change in any way, she does not scar, and - most curiously of all - she does not die in the same sense as a regular mortal person dies. In the case that she is 'killed', the link between her aetheric and corporeal forms weakens drastically. However, due to the nature of the spell that was cast upon her, that link is unable to be severed. After some time, when the aether has had enough time to mend her wounds, the link strengths and she 'returns' to life.<br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify;">---</span></span></li> | ||
− | <li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aether Absorption :''' </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">Additionally, she requires the absorption of additional aether to maintain a firm hold on her corporeal form. An incidental discovery led her to use crystals to this end, much the same way as a primal draws upon their latent aether albeit to a much, </span><span style="color:#899398;">''much ''</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">less powerful degree. She can also absorb the aether of other creatures on occasion, though it is quite rare and the party relinquishing the aether must either part with it willingly or be extremely weakened and unable to stop it.< | + | <li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aether Absorption :''' </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">Additionally, she requires the absorption of additional aether to maintain a firm hold on her corporeal form. An incidental discovery led her to use crystals to this end, much the same way as a primal draws upon their latent aether albeit to a much, </span><span style="color:#899398;">''much ''</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">less powerful degree. She can also absorb the aether of other creatures on occasion, though it is quite rare and the party relinquishing the aether must either part with it willingly or be extremely weakened and unable to stop it.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(137, 147, 152); font-family: georgia, serif;">By absorbing this additional aether, she is able to keep a more solid hold on her being. Without it, her personality fluxes and changes dramatically and her magical abilities weaken and/or become much more uncontrollable and unpredictable. Over time, if her aetheric stores become too low, she might cease to function entirely and enter a comatose state until she is able to passively gather enough aether to function again.</span><br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify; font-family: georgia, serif;">---</span></li> |
<li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Capacity : '''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">An interesting side effect, however, concerns her magical capacity. Before Carteneau, Xheja was a potent Conjurer able to call upon the aether of nature to heal wounds and protect her allies. After Carteneau, while the aether was still in major chaotic flux, she was able to tap into that excess aether and use it to continue conjuring. However, as it settled and that excess aether disappeared from the atmosphere, she lost her ability to conjure.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">However, in time, she learned that she was able to do the complete opposite - using thaumaturgy to call not upon the aether of nature, but of herself. Using a staff or scepter as a focus, she can easily channel aether into spells of destruction. Given that a thaumaturge's prowess is limited only by the capacity for handling aether, Xheja's limits are theoretically boundless because her soul and the physical vessel it is anchored to are essentially separate entities. However, in reality, Xheja has found that her ability for magic is limited by the amount of aether she can draw upon. So in short, the stronger she wishes to become, the more aether she has to absorb, and the more often she has to absorb it.<br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify;">---</span></span></li> | <li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Capacity : '''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">An interesting side effect, however, concerns her magical capacity. Before Carteneau, Xheja was a potent Conjurer able to call upon the aether of nature to heal wounds and protect her allies. After Carteneau, while the aether was still in major chaotic flux, she was able to tap into that excess aether and use it to continue conjuring. However, as it settled and that excess aether disappeared from the atmosphere, she lost her ability to conjure.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">However, in time, she learned that she was able to do the complete opposite - using thaumaturgy to call not upon the aether of nature, but of herself. Using a staff or scepter as a focus, she can easily channel aether into spells of destruction. Given that a thaumaturge's prowess is limited only by the capacity for handling aether, Xheja's limits are theoretically boundless because her soul and the physical vessel it is anchored to are essentially separate entities. However, in reality, Xheja has found that her ability for magic is limited by the amount of aether she can draw upon. So in short, the stronger she wishes to become, the more aether she has to absorb, and the more often she has to absorb it.<br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify;">---</span></span></li> | ||
<li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Anomaly :'''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">''' '''In regards to those who are adept at reading or sensing aether, they would very likely sense something amiss about her. At the very least, even those not particularly skilled at sensing aether may feel something unsettling or unnatural about her. However, it would be highly unlikely that they would sense </span><span style="color:#899398;">''exactly''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">why they feel that way, just that there is some kind of aetheric anomaly about her. And if the subject is broached, one can expect her to shut down and/or excuse herself very quickly.<br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify;">---</span></span></li> | <li><span style="color:rgb(3,64,95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Anomaly :'''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">''' '''In regards to those who are adept at reading or sensing aether, they would very likely sense something amiss about her. At the very least, even those not particularly skilled at sensing aether may feel something unsettling or unnatural about her. However, it would be highly unlikely that they would sense </span><span style="color:#899398;">''exactly''<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">why they feel that way, just that there is some kind of aetheric anomaly about her. And if the subject is broached, one can expect her to shut down and/or excuse herself very quickly.<br/><span style="color: rgb(4, 22, 41); text-align: justify;">---</span></span></li> | ||
− | <li><span style="color: rgb(3, 64, 95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Sense :'''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">''' '''Xheja's condition predisposes her to be especially sensitive to aether, resulting in a quasi-sixth sense. Most of the time, that's just vague impressions or feelings. Yet in cases where the aetheric current is particularly strong, she can 'see' how it flows and gathers.</span></li> | + | <li><span style="color: rgb(3, 64, 95);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">'''Aetheric Sense :'''</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(137, 147, 152);">''' '''Xheja's condition predisposes her to be especially sensitive to aether, resulting in a quasi-sixth sense. Most of the time, that's just vague impressions or feelings. Yet in cases where the aetheric current is particularly strong, she can 'see' how it flows and gathers.</span></li> |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; width: 162px; background-color: rgb(3, 64, 95);" | <span style="color:#f0f8ff;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">Chat Modes</span></span> | | style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; width: 162px; background-color: rgb(3, 64, 95);" | <span style="color:#f0f8ff;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">Chat Modes</span></span> | ||
| style="vertical-align: middle; width: 583px; background-color: rgb(110, 123, 139);" | <span style="color:#f0f8ff;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm equally comfortable with private modes of RP (p</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">arty chat, tells, etc.) and open /say roleplay. Therefore, if you have any specific preference, let me know beforehand! However, note that if you want to /tell RP, please let me know first. Otherwise, all /tells I receive out of the blue are considered to be OOC!</span></span> | | style="vertical-align: middle; width: 583px; background-color: rgb(110, 123, 139);" | <span style="color:#f0f8ff;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm equally comfortable with private modes of RP (p</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">arty chat, tells, etc.) and open /say roleplay. Therefore, if you have any specific preference, let me know beforehand! However, note that if you want to /tell RP, please let me know first. Otherwise, all /tells I receive out of the blue are considered to be OOC!</span></span> | ||
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+ | | style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; width: 162px; background-color: rgb(3, 64, 95);" | <span style="color: rgb(240, 248, 255); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">Post Styles</span> | ||
+ | | style="vertical-align: middle; width: 583px; background-color: rgb(110, 123, 139);" | <span style="color: rgb(240, 248, 255); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;">I try to mirror the types of posts that my partner(s) make. If the posts have been long and detailed, I'll do the same. If the RP is primarily dialogue, I'll try to adjust to that style. (Though it is a bit awkward for me at times, given my experience with RP comes from forum-based avenues.) In addition, if you're interested in setting up forum-based RP, I'm totally open to that as well!</span> | ||
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